Israel's Ofeq-6 reconnaissance satellite was lost when the Shavit-2 rocket's Rafael-built third stage suffered an orientation failure about 270 seconds into flight, plunging the roughly $50 million satellite into the Mediterranean off Palmachim.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 4th
- of 11 Shavit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 2004, 10:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Shavit-2
- Builder
- IAI
- Launch site
- Shavit Launch Pad, Palmachim Airbase, State of Israel
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 2004
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