Lockheed Martin

Gemstar DSS-1

Athena I

FAILURE
Failure

Tuesday, August 15, 1995 · 22:30 UTC

Mission

/01

The CTA GEMStar 1 (VITASAT 1) satellite partially sponsored by Volunteers In Technical Assistance (VITA) of Arlington Virginia, was launched at 2230 UTC from Vandenberg AFB on the 15-Aug-95, but a second stage failure destroyed the first flight of the Lockheed LLV-1 launch vehicle (later dubbed Athena-1).

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Athena I

Variant: I

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 6

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

34.581° N, 120.626° W

1

Pad Launches

564

Location Launches

12

Agency Launches

47

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