Ekran 13 (Ekran 27L), a Soviet direct-broadcast television satellite, launched on a Proton-K/DM from Baikonur into geosynchronous orbit to relay national TV programming to remote northern and eastern regions of the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 49th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 24 August 1984, 19:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1984-090
- Launches in 1984
- 90th of 129
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