Athena
Flight History
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Flight Record (through 31 December 2003)
------------------------Athena I Athena II Combined Athena Family
Total Orbital Flights 4 3 7
Launch Vehicle Successes 3 2 5
Launch Vehicle Partial Failures 0 0 0
Launch Vehicle Failures 1 1 2
(Table)
| | Date |Launch interval |Model |Vehicle Destination |Pad |Payload |Payload Name |Mass| Orbit |Market |Country
- 1995
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 2001
Flight History table of failures
F 1995 Aug 15 DLV 1995 F04
Expended hydraulic fluid burned in first stage aft section, damaging nozzle feedback cables causing loss of gimbal control and tumbling. Separately, arcing in the IMU high-voltage power supply caused loss of attitude
reference. Flight terminated
by range safety officer at T+160 s.
S 1997 Aug 23 LM-002 1997 044A
The spacecraft started an unexpected spinning motion of about two rpm in its orbit only four days after being launched. As a result, the spacecraft’s twin solar arrays were unable to capture enough sunlight to properly
recharge the onboard
batteries. Contact with the spacecraft was lost shortly thereafter. Engineers believe the
spinning was started with an accidental firing by one of the satellite’s steering thrusters. The satellite reentered
the atmosphere 28 September
1997.
F 1999 Apr 27 LM-005 1999 F01
Payload fairing failed to separate, and the extra weight prevented the vehicle from reaching orbit. During the fairing separation event, the shock of the circumfrential ordnance firing disconnected the cable carrying the
signal to fire the longitudinal
ordnance.