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Launch FailureLaunch Details
Date: 24 Feb 2009, 09:55 am UTC
Rocket: Minotaur-C 3110 (Minotaur)
Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 576E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
American satellite designed to monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide. It was lost during launch due to the payload fairing failing to jettison.