Titan 4A is destroyed only 40s after blast-off

1998-08-19T00:00:00

A Lockheed Martin Titan 4A launcher carrying a classified US military satellite, rumoured to be worth some $1 billion, had to be destroyed only 40s after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 12 August.

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