Maiden flight of the Athena I (Lockheed Launch Vehicle), carrying the small GEMstar 1 communications satellite for Volunteers in Technical Assistance. Hydraulic fluid fire damaged first-stage nozzle control cables and the vehicle tumbled out of control; range safety destroyed it at T+160 seconds.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 4 Athena I flights
- Date and time
- 15 August 1995, 22:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Athena I
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 6, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1995
- 47th of 80