Carried a Molniya-3K military communications satellite from Plesetsk. The Molniya-M's third-stage engine failed roughly six minutes after liftoff, and the upper stage and payload crashed in the Tyumen region of Siberia.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 268th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 21 June 2005, 00:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 2005
- 23rd of 56