Landsat 6 separated from its Titan II booster as planned, but a ruptured hydrazine manifold in its propulsion module prevented the apogee motor from firing, sending the Earth-observation satellite tumbling and leaving it unable to reach orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 4th
- of 13 Titan II SLV flights
- Date and time
- 5 October 1993, 17:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II SLV
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1993
- 66th of 83