A Dnepr rocket failed about 74 seconds after liftoff from Baikonur when a hydraulic drive on a first-stage combustion chamber malfunctioned, destroying 18 small satellites including CubeSats from several countries and institutions in the largest single-launch payload loss on record.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 7th
- of 22 Dnepr 1 flights
- Date and time
- 26 July 2006, 19:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Dnepr 1
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 109/95, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 2006
- 33rd of 66