Soyuz-U from Plesetsk carrying a Resurs-F1 (17F40) Earth-resources film-return satellite failed when a Blok-D strap-on LOX turbopump disintegrated at T+6 s from debris ingestion; the booster crashed near the pad, damaging it for about 18 months.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 475th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 1987, 07:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1987
- 55th of 114