Delta 3914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A failed carrying ESA’s OTS 1 (Orbital Test Satellite), an experimental Ku-band geostationary communications demonstrator; a Castor IV solid booster exploded about 54 seconds after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 13 September 1977, 23:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1977
- 91st of 130