A Zenit-2 carrying a classified Tselina-2 naval electronic-intelligence satellite suffered a first-stage engine failure seconds after liftoff and fell back onto the pad at Baikonur, causing an explosion that put the launch complex out of action for years.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 15th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 4 October 1990, 04:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/2, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1990
- 93rd of 121