Air-launched Pegasus XL carrying the U.S. Air Force's Space Test Experiments Platform 3 (STEP-3) satellite. An improperly installed nozzle guide jammed second-stage steering after separation, and range safety destroyed the vehicle about 2 minutes 20 seconds into flight, the second consecutive Pegasus XL failure.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 22 June 1995, 19:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- Launches in 1995
- 33rd of 80