STV

Class: Technology. Nation: Europe. Agency: ELDO(F7).

Satellite Test Vehicle.

Mass: 249 kg (548 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Europa.

STV Chronology

1968 November 29 - STV 1 / Europa F-7 - Launch Site: Woomera. Launch Vehicle: Europa. FAILURE: Third stage exploded. Mass: 249 kg (548 lb). Apogee: 230 km (140 mi).
First attempt by ELDO to launch a satellite to orbit. Satellite Test Vehicle payload.

1969 July 2 - Europa F-8 / STV 2 - Launch Site: Woomera. Launch Vehicle: Europa. FAILURE: Third stage failed. Apogee: 300 km (180 mi).

1970 June 12 - Europa F-9 / STV 3 - Launch Site: Woomera. Launch Vehicle: Europa. FAILURE: Payload fairing failed to seperate. Apogee: 2,000 km (1,200 mi).

Bibliography and Further Reading

McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik. Accessed at: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

Bramscher, Robert G, Spaceflight, "A Survey of Launch Vehicle Failures", 1980, Volume 22, page 351.

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