[3] The third stage is an Orbital Adjustment Module, fuelled by hydrazine and propelled by four MR-107 engines, which is used for final insertion.

It was intended to place GemStar-1 into orbit, however the rocket was destroyed by the range safety officer after the failure of its thrust vectoring system resulted in a loss of control.

Both MOL and polar Shuttle flights were cancelled before any launches were made from SLC-6.

The next Athena I launch was on 23 August 1997, and successfully placed the Lewis satellite into orbit for NASA.

Known as the Kodiak Star mission,[6] it successfully placed the Starshine 3, PicoSAT 9, PCSat and SAPPHIRE satellites into orbit.