Proton-K/DM from Baikonur Site 200/40 launched Ekran 5 (No.19L), a Soviet geostationary direct-broadcast television satellite for national TV coverage into geosynchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 1980, 22:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1980-060
- Launches in 1980
- 61st of 108
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