Atlas I failed to deliver Japan's BS-3H (Yuri 3H) direct-broadcast satellite to orbit from Cape Canaveral after debris blocked a Centaur RL10 engine from igniting; the resulting turbopump failure led to destruction of the vehicle by range safety at T+361 seconds.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 18 April 1991, 23:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1991
- 30th of 91