A Zenit-2 rocket carrying a classified Tselina-2 electronic intelligence satellite for the Soviet military failed from Baikonur when its second-stage engine overheated and the stage exploded, one of two consecutive second-stage failures that nearly ended the Zenit program.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 16th
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1991, 08:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1991
- 65th of 91