United States Air Force

Parcae 4A,B,C & MSD 4

Atlas E MSD

FAILURE
Failure

Tuesday, December 9, 1980 · 07:18 UTC

Mission

/01

The Parcae satellites were passive ELINT satellites. MSD satellites were dispensers of triplets of ocean surveillance satellites.

Mission Type

Government/Top Secret

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Atlas E MSD

Variant: E/MSD

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 3W

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

34.644° N, 120.593° W

59

Pad Launches

483

Location Launches

763

Agency Launches

101

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