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Intelsat 27 Launch Fails
The Sea Launch company launched their Zenit-3SL rocket from the Odyssey Launch Platform in the Pacific Ocean on Friday. However, the vehicle – along with its Intelsat 27 telecommunications satellite payload – suffered a failure during first stage flight, resulting in a complete loss of mission.
Sea Launch Failure:
The launch was on time 06:56 GMT launch on Friday, as the vehicle began its mission to loft the satellite into optimized geosynchronous transfer orbit, en route to its new home at 304.5 degrees East longitude.
However, with a very poor webcast stream, only parts of the countdown and launch were watchable, with no audio. The webcast was then stopped, initially believed to be because of the poor quality of the stream. Sadly, it was due to the failure of the vehicle, 40 seconds into first stage flight, according to Russian media giants RIA Novosti, later confirmed by Sea Launch themselves.
Source: Sea Launch Zenit 3SL with Intelsat 27 fails during first stage flight | NASASpaceFlight.com
The Sea Launch company launched their Zenit-3SL rocket from the Odyssey Launch Platform in the Pacific Ocean on Friday. However, the vehicle – along with its Intelsat 27 telecommunications satellite payload – suffered a failure during first stage flight, resulting in a complete loss of mission.
Sea Launch Failure:
The launch was on time 06:56 GMT launch on Friday, as the vehicle began its mission to loft the satellite into optimized geosynchronous transfer orbit, en route to its new home at 304.5 degrees East longitude.
However, with a very poor webcast stream, only parts of the countdown and launch were watchable, with no audio. The webcast was then stopped, initially believed to be because of the poor quality of the stream. Sadly, it was due to the failure of the vehicle, 40 seconds into first stage flight, according to Russian media giants RIA Novosti, later confirmed by Sea Launch themselves.
Source: Sea Launch Zenit 3SL with Intelsat 27 fails during first stage flight | NASASpaceFlight.com
