Raduga 2 (Gran 12L), a Soviet dual-use GEO communications satellite for military and domestic links, launched on a Proton-K/Blok DM from Baikonur Site 81/24 into geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 11 September 1976, 18:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1976-092
- Launches in 1976
- 93rd of 131
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