Delta 3914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A failed carrying NOAA's GOES-G geostationary weather satellite; an electrical short shut down the first-stage engine and range safety destroyed the vehicle about 71 seconds after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 12th
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 3 May 1986, 22:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1986
- 36th of 110