Ekran 6 (Ekran 20L), a Soviet geostationary direct-to-home television broadcast satellite for national TV distribution. Proton-K/DM from Baikonur Site 200/40 placed the craft in GEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 1980, 11:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1980-104
- Launches in 1980
- 107th of 108
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