1959 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA S-1
failureJuno II | NASA S-1
The S-1 satellite was a geoscience satellite equipped with a suite of scientific instruments to study the environment around the Earth. It was destroyed 5 seconds into launch when the launch vehicle exploded due to an issue with the launch vehicles power supply.
Overview
- Date / time
- July 16, 1959 at 05:37 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 5
- Mission
- NASA S-1
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit