Globalstar 5, 7, 9 to 13, 16 to 18, 20, 21

Carried 12 Globalstar mobile-phone satellites but failed when a guidance computer error triggered a premature second-stage engine shutdown around T+272 seconds, destroying all 12 satellites in the first commercial Zenit launch.

Outcome

Failure

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

1st

Only Zenit-2 11K77.05 flight

Date and time

9 September 1998, 20:29 UTC

Rocket

Zenit-2 11K77.05

Builder

Yuzhmash

Launch site

45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Communications

Launches in 1998

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