Raduga 12 (Gran 23L), a Soviet dual-use geostationary communications satellite, launched on a Proton-K/DM from Baikonur for military C-band links plus Orbita network TV, telephone, and telegraph services across the Eastern Hemisphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 37th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 8 April 1983, 04:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-028
- Launches in 1983
- 29th of 129
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