Proton-K/DM from Baikonur lofted Raduga 13 (Gran 24L), a geostationary military and dual-use communications satellite for the Soviet Union's constellation of secure long-haul relay spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 39th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 25 August 1983, 20:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-088
- Launches in 1983
- 89th of 129
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