A Soyuz-U carrying a Resurs-F Earth-resources photographic satellite failed shortly after liftoff from Plesetsk when a newly redesigned automatic flight-termination circuit issued an erroneous shutdown command, crashing the booster near the pad and severely damaging launch complex 43/4.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 513th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 27 July 1988, 09:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1988
- 68th of 121