First flight of the Soviet Zenit-2 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite from Baikonur on a Vostok-K (8K72K). The Blok-E upper-stage RO-7 engine shut down early; the payload self-destructed at about T+407 s, with debris falling north of Vilyuisk.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 6th
- of 13 Vostok-K flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 1961, 09:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1961
- 47th of 50