CORONA KH-4B mission 1113, an NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite that failed when its Thorad SLV-2H Agena-D booster suffered engine failure about 18 seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg due to a fuel-additive loading error.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 8th
- of 13 Thorad SLV-2H Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 17 February 1971, 20:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Thorad SLV-2H Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1971
- 13th of 133