When in university, I worked on a cubesat project; the first satellite apparently got stuck in its launch container, never getting out to deploy its antennas and say 'Hi, mom!'. Good thing we had built two; now all we had to do was wrestle ourselves in on a later launch.

The second, duplicate one? Oh, that wound up in a Kazakh field while still attached to the launch vehicle. I like to think that second one made some poor farmer need a new pair of pants, if nothing else.

Then again, as far as impact goes, it would have been a lot cooler to receive one's telemetry from space rather than just having a pair of soiled pants to show for it...