Proton-K/Blok DM from Baikonur failed carrying a Raduga (Gran 22L) military geostationary communications satellite; the second stage engine failed about 230 seconds after liftoff due to high-frequency vibrations.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 35th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 24 December 1982, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1982
- 127th of 129