R-36 (Tsyklon/Dnepr) Launch Vehicle Flight History Page 2 of 2
                        Comprehensive Orbital Failure List

Date        Vehicle          ID      Site       Payload             Failure Description                      Result#
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10/23/1964  Kosmos 65S3   01L        TB 41/15  3xStrela-1           failed to orbit                            FTO
3/22/1967   R-36O 8K69    N22500-08L TB 161/35 -                    failed to orbit                            FTO
4/24/1968   Tsiklon-2A               TB 90/20  Kosmos-217           incorrect orbit                           (LEO)
1/25/1969   Tsiklon-2A               TB 90/20  Kosmos               failed to orbit                            FTO
4/25/1973   Tsiklon-2                TB 90     -                    failed to orbit                            FTO   
1/23/1981   Tsiklon-3                PL 32/1   -                    failed to orbit                            FTO
11/27/1984  Tsiklon-3                PL 32/1   Kosmos-1612          incorrect orbit                           (LEO)
10/15/1986  Tsiklon-3                PL        -                    failed to orbit                            FTO
6/9/1989    Tsiklon-3                PL 32/2   Okean                failed to orbit                            FTO
5/25/1994   Tsiklon-3                PL 32/2   -                    2nd & 3rd stgs failed to separate          FTO
6/15/1998   Tsiklon-3                PL        Kosmos-2352-57       bad 3rd stg apogee burn, improper orbit   (EEO)
12/27/2000  Tsiklon-3                PL 32/1   Gonets/Kosmos        3rd stg failed during 1st burn at 376 sec  FTO
12/26/2004  Tsiklon-3                PL 32     Sich1M(Okean)/KS5M2  3rd stg 2nd (apogee) burn 60 sec short    (EEO)
07/26/2006  Dnepr (R-36MU)           TB 109/95 BelKA + 17 usats     1st stg gimbal hydrodrive 73 sec           FTO
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Footnotes:

#  FTO:  Failed to Orbit
   (EEO):  Unintended Eliptical Earth Orbit
   (GTO):  Unintended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
   (LEO):  Unintended/Improper Low Earth Orbit

"KY" = Kapustin Yar, Russia
"TB" = Tyuratam/Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstahn
"PL" = Plesetsk Northern Cosmodrome, Russia


References:

Jonathan's Space Report Launch Vehicle Database "http://www.planet4589.org/space/lvdb/index.html"
Encylopedia Astronautica "http://www.astronautix.com/"
Gunter's Space Page "http://www.skyrocket.de/space"
TRW Space Log 1957-1996, TRW Space & Electronics Group, Redondo Beach, CA. 
SpaceFlightNow "http://www.spaceflightnow.com"

Last Update 12/22/2008 by Ed Kyle