LAUNCH CENTER
Failure
Mon Oct 23 1995
Space Services Inc.
Meteor SM
Launch Failure
LAUNCH PREVIEW
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(10:03 PM UTC)
Launch Window Start
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(10:03 PM UTC)
Launch Window End
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(10:03 PM UTC)
RECOVERY OVERVIEW
Location
No Recovery Specified
Type
No Recovery Specified
Rocket Details
Name:
Conestoga 1620Description:
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.
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