Explorer S-1, a NASA radiation-belt science satellite, launched on a Juno II from Cape Canaveral LC-5 on 16 July 1959. A shorted diode cut guidance power at liftoff; the vehicle cartwheeled and was destroyed by range safety near the pad.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 10 Juno II flights
- Date and time
- 16 July 1959, 17:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Juno II
- Builder
- Chrysler
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1959
- 11th of 23