Failure of landsat 6

On October 5, 1993 the EOSAT-owned Landsat 6 failed at launch after not reaching the velocity
necessary to obtain orbit.

The satellite did not achieve orbit because of a ruptured hydrazine manifold. The separation from
the booster rocket occurred properly, however, the ruptured rocket fuel chamber prevented fuel
from reaching the apogee kick motor. This failure resulted in the spacecraft tumbling instead of
accumulating enough energy to reach its planned orbit.

Landsat 6 carried an Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM). The ETM sensor would have collected
data in the same seven spectral bands and at the same spatial resolutions as the TM instrument on
Landsats 4 and 5. The ETM instrument also included an eighth band with a spatial resolution of
15 m. The eighth band was known as the sharpening band or panchromatic band. It was sensitive
to light from the green through near infrared wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Reference:

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/landsat-6/