Mercury-Scout 1 (MS-1 / MNTV-1), a NASA communications satellite to test the Mercury Tracking Network, launched on a Blue Scout II from Cape Canaveral LC-18B; transposed guidance connectors caused loss of control and Range Safety destroyed the vehicle at T+43 s.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Blue Scout II flight
- Date and time
- 1 November 1961, 15:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Blue Scout II
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 18B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1961
- 40th of 50