Raduga 3 (Gran 13L), a Soviet dual-use geostationary C-band communications satellite for military and governmental links, launched on a Proton-K/DM from Baikonur Site 200/40—the first orbital launch from that pad.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 23 July 1977, 21:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1977-071
- Launches in 1977
- 72nd of 130
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