#Atlas agena b failure download
Best part? Where someone says "I don't know how the Range Safety Officer has permitted the flight to continue." From watching the CBS coverage, it seems there was a bit of "deer in the headlights" syndrome going on and nobody in the blockhouse knew exactly what was happening.ĭTIC (Defense Technical Information Center) lists a failure investigation report for the launch but there's no download link. Also there's video on Youtube of the CBS live coverage of the launch. You can also see the booster jettison take place. This newsreel clip shows the tracking camera footage of the Atlas cartwheeling. The control failure was found to be the result of a short in the Atlas programmer servoamplifier, suspected to be from either a pinched wire or something being frozen from LOX leakage.īy 1966, Q/C on Atlas vehicles had improved significantly compared to 4-5 years earlier due to the standardized Atlas SLV, however incidents like this and the Canyon failure mentioned earlier show that random component malfunctions could still occur and result in the loss of a mission. The Atlas sustainer section and Agena impacted in the ocean about 120 miles downrange. Agena engine start after staging did not occur because the proper altitude and velocity had not been achieved, so the guidance system was blocked from issuing the start command to it. Since it was a cloudy day, tracking cameras at CCAS failed to record the incident, but cameras several miles down the beach showed the Atlas flipping over. Telemetry from the Agena continued until 450 seconds and then stopped. The Atlas sustainer and verniers cut off around 300 seconds, followed by Agena separation.
One of the booster engines went hard over and the Atlas pinwheeled around and started heading back towards earth.
It had a control failure shortly before BECO.
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