Sea Launch attempt carrying the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies; debris ingested into a turbopump caused an engine failure and explosion on the Odyssey launch platform just before liftoff, destroying the rocket and payload.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 24th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights