ITOS E, a NOAA/NASA Improved TIROS Operational System weather satellite intended for global cloud and temperature imaging. Delta 0300 from Vandenberg SLC-2W failed on 16 July 1973 when the second stage malfunctioned, destroying the RCA craft before orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Delta 0300 flights
- Date and time
- 16 July 1973, 17:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 0300
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1973
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