Strela-3 125 to 127 & Gonets 7 to 9

Failed while carrying three military Strela-3 store-dump communications satellites and three civilian Gonets-D1 satellites; a third-stage steering-unit fault sent the rocket off course and it crashed near Wrangel Island, destroying all six spacecraft.

Outcome

Failure

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

118th

of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights

Date and time

27 December 2000, 09:56 UTC

Rocket

Tsiklon-3

Builder

Yuzhmash

Launch site

32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Communications

Launches in 2000

85th of 85