Proton-K/Blok DM from Baikonur launched Ekran 8 (Ekran 22L), a Soviet geostationary direct-broadcast television satellite that relayed national TV programming across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 5 February 1982, 09:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1982-009
- Launches in 1982
- 9th of 129
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