Overview
- Date / time
- February 14, 1996 at 07:01 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- Mission
- INTELSAT 708
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Orbit
FailureGuidance platform short-circuited right at liftoff, leading to loss of attitude control. The vehicle hit the ground at T+23 seconds and exploded, killing at least 6 people on the ground.