Proton-K/Blok DM from Baikonur Site 200/40 launched Raduga 8 (Gran 18L), a Soviet geostationary communications satellite providing military and civilian C-band telephone, telegraph, and Orbita TV relay services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 24th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 18 March 1981, 04:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1981-027
- Launches in 1981
- 28th of 126
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