A Soyuz-U-PVB failed shortly after liftoff from Plesetsk, destroying the roughly 6,600 kg Yantar-4K1 photo-reconnaissance satellite it carried; an upper-stage malfunction prevented the spacecraft from reaching orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 566th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 3 July 1990, 19:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1990
- 60th of 121