Talk:Atlas SLV-3

Spaceflight Low‑importance

	Spaceflight portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Spaceflight, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of spaceflight on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SpaceflightWikipedia:WikiProject SpaceflightTemplate:WikiProject Spaceflightspaceflight articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Rocketry Mid‑importance

	Rocketry portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Rocketry, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of rocketry on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RocketryWikipedia:WikiProject RocketryTemplate:WikiProject RocketryRocketry articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Definition of "launch failure"?[edit]

How do we define a launch failure? If the launch vehicle performs perfectly, delivering its payload to exactly the proper orbit, how is that a failure of launch? Separation of the nose cone was not necessary for launch; it's something that occurs after launch. If the spacecraft fails its mission for whatever reason in orbit, that is a mission failure but not a launch failure. Is there an authoritative definition otherwise? JustinTime55 (talk) 21:11, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The nose is part of the rocket and its separation is part of the launch. The failure of the mission was caused by this failing to separate, so by any reasonable definition it must be considered a launch failure, in the same way that Glory and OCO are considered launch failures. --W. D. Graham 17:44, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How many launches?[edit]

This page says Atlas SLV-3 launched 5 times but in the page 1966_in_spaceflight there are 9 flights. The JSR database lists 114 flights of Atlas SLV-3. Barecode (talk) 15:40, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]