Failed Tsyklon-3 attempt from Plesetsk Site 32/1 to orbit a Geo-IK (Musson) geodetic survey satellite for the Soviet military. The payload fairing failed to separate, destroying the spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 8th
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 23 January 1981, 11:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1981
- 7th of 126