Second consecutive Delta III failure: a ruptured RL10 second-stage engine chamber stranded Hughes' Orion 3 communications satellite in a low useless orbit instead of geostationary transfer orbit, a loss estimated at $230 million.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Delta III 8930 flights
- Date and time
- 5 May 1999, 01:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta III 8930
- Builder
- Boeing
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-024
- Launches in 1999
- 25th of 78
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