Proton-K/DM from Baikonur placed Gorizont 8 (Gorizont 18L) into geostationary orbit, a Soviet dual-use communications satellite for television, telephone, and data relay across the USSR and international partners.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 41st
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 30 November 1983, 13:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-118
- Launches in 1983
- 120th of 129
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