Landsat 6

USA

Launch data:

Designation	93F04
Launch date	05 Oct 1993 at 17:56 UT
Launch site	Va, SLC-4W
Launch vehicle	Titan-2(23)G Star-37XFP-ISS (#16)
Mission:	Remote sensing

Launch failure

End of life

Out of service	05 Oct 1993
Cause	Attitude control failure

After rupture of a hydrazine manifold disabled attitude control the satellite began to tumble at the start of the apogee-motor (Thiokol Star 37XFP) firing, and did not reach orbit.

Ref: #15 - update: 23.05.09