Attempted to launch EarthWatch's QuickBird 1 commercial imaging satellite from Plesetsk; a second-stage failure prevented orbital insertion and the satellite reentered the next day still attached to the rocket's upper stage.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 423rd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 2000, 23:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2000-074
- Launches in 2000
- 76th of 85
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