Ekran 1 (Ekran 11L), the first Soviet operational geosynchronous direct-broadcast TV satellite (Stationar-T). Proton-K/Blok-DM from Baikonur Site 81/24 placed the ~2 t KAUR-3 craft in GEO to deliver Central Television to Siberia and the Far North.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 26 October 1976, 14:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1976-107
- Launches in 1976
- 109th of 131
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