Maiden flight of Titan IIIE/Centaur carrying NASA’s Viking Dynamic Simulator and piggyback SPHINX plasma-interaction experiment. Centaur LOX turbopump failed after staging, destroying both payloads before reaching the planned high elliptical orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- HEO
- Highly elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Titan IIIE flights
- Date and time
- 11 February 1974, 13:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIE
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 1974
- 6th of 113