Ekran 10 (Ekran 18L), a Soviet geostationary direct-broadcast TV satellite for the Orbita system. Proton-K/DM from Baikonur lofted the ~2-tonne Ka-band craft to GEO to relay television to remote northern and Siberian regions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 36th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 12 March 1983, 14:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-016
- Launches in 1983
- 17th of 129
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