Landsat 6

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General

Designation	n/a
Launch date	5 Oct 1993 at 17:56 UT
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Remote sensing
Launch vehicle	Titan 2 #16

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End of life

Out of service	5 Oct 1993
Cause	Attitude control failure

Cost: $220 million

After rupture of a hydrazine manifold disabled attitude control the satellite began to tumble at the start of the apogee-motor (Thiokol Star 37XFP) firing, and did not reach orbit.

Technical data

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Specifications
Payload

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