Ekran 2 (Ekran 12L), a Soviet geostationary direct-to-home television broadcast satellite for Siberia and the Far North. Proton-K/DM from Baikonur Site 200/40 placed the craft in GEO as part of the Ekran (Stationar-T) system, among the first DTH TV services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 20 September 1977, 17:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1977-092
- Launches in 1977
- 96th of 130
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