Titan IV(403)A carrying a classified NOSS naval ocean surveillance satellite exploded 101 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral SLC-40, destroyed by a burn-through in one of its solid rocket motors caused by a casting flaw. It was the first-ever failure of a Titan IV.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 5 Titan 403A flights
- Date and time
- 2 August 1993, 19:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 403A
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1993
- 50th of 83