Brazil's VLS-1 rocket suffered its second consecutive failure when the second stage failed to ignite after booster separation; the vehicle was destroyed by range safety about 3.5 minutes into flight. The SACI-2 microsatellite was lost, and INPE later canceled the program.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 VLS-1 flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 1999, 18:25 UTC
- Rocket
- VLS-1
- Builder
- CTA
- Launch site
- VLS Pad, Alcântara Space Center, Federative Republic of Brazil
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- Launches in 1999
- 71st of 78