Sep 2 1988
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
A classified Department of Defense payload was launched aboard a Titan 34D launch vehicle from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Sources quoted by the Associated Press said the rocket failed to carry its payload into the correct orbit. The payload was widely believed to be a Vortex reconnaissance satellite. (SSR 1988 077A-C; UPI, Sep 2/88; Reuter, Sep 2/88)
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