Launch Alert | Flight 7
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Failure
Mon Oct 23 1995
Space Services Inc.

Meteor SM

Launch Failure
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Conestoga 1620

Description:

The Conestoga was a launch vehicle design funded by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) of Houston, Texas. Conestoga originally consisted of surplus LGM-30 Minuteman stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required for larger payloads. It was the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, but was launched only three times (once as a modified design) before the program was shut down.

Conestoga 1620 rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Planetary Science
  • METEOR (Multiple Experiment Transport to Earth Orbit & Return), formerly COMET (Commercial Experiment Transporter), was a NASA program to develop a commercially available experiment transporter for microgravity experiments over longer periods.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

Pad

Launch Area 0 A