Failed Proton-K/DM attempt from Baikonur to orbit Ekran 23L, a Soviet geostationary direct-broadcast television satellite; first-stage hydraulic failure triggered automatic flight termination about 45 seconds after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 31st
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 22 July 1982, 22:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1982
- 78th of 129