Rokot/Briz-KM carrying ESA's CryoSat-1 ice-monitoring satellite failed to reach orbit after the Briz-KM upper stage's engine did not shut down on command, a software fault traced to contractor Khartron; the stage and satellite were lost, likely in the Lincoln Sea.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 7th
- of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights
- Date and time
- 8 October 2005, 15:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Rokot/Briz-KM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- Launches in 2005
- 43rd of 56