FOBS - rocket launch details

Launch time2 Nov 196600:45 UTC

failure

Orbit: LEO

Second stage engine failed to shut down as planned and mistakenly entered orbit; bomb self-destructed.

Rocket TsyklonR-36-O

launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Pad 162/36Kazakhstan

Name	Purpose	Mass	Comment
FOBS	Orbital bomb	-	-