A Proton-K/DM-2 launched a Raduga-class (Globus) military communications relay satellite from Baikonur into an intermediate transfer orbit ahead of eventual deployment to geosynchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 109th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 2009, 04:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2009-010
- Launches in 2009
- 11th of 78
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