Atlas I failed about two minutes after liftoff when one of its two Centaur upper-stage engines failed to ignite after debris blocked a fuel line, causing the rocket to tumble and self-destruct with the Galaxy 1R cable-TV satellite for TCI aboard.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 4th
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 22 August 1992, 22:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1992
- 58th of 97