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Launch FailureNational Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA S-1

Juno II

This mission has flown

July 16, 1959

Mission overview

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.

Rocket

Juno II

Mission type

Earth Science

Payload

NASA S-1

Launch complex

Launch Complex 5 · Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Launch date

July 16, 1959

Launch window

Instantaneous window

Orbit reached

Elliptical Orbit

Launch trajectory

The launch pad has not been identified. No flight path is shown.

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