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4 February 1976, 06:00 UTC

CORSA

Mu-3CUchinoura Space Center, Japan
Drawing of the Mu-3C for CORSA

Corsa A (Cosmic Radiation Satellite), an ISAS Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite lost when its Mu-3C failed to reach orbit from Kagoshima after a second-stage thrust-vector-control failure; successor Corsa B later flew as Hakucho.

Outcome
Failure
Orbit
LEO
Low Earth orbit
Payload to orbit
Did not reach orbit
Flight
3rd
of 4 Mu-3C flights
Date and time
4 February 1976, 06:00 UTC
Rocket
Mu-3C
Builder
Nissan
Launch site
Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Payload
Astrophysics
Launches in 1976
12th of 131