Raduga 16 (Gran 26L), a Soviet military and civilian geosynchronous communications satellite, launched on a Proton-K/DM from Baikonur. It provided fixed and mobile communications for the Soviet military and state networks from GEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 53rd
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 1985, 21:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1985-070
- Launches in 1985
- 71st of 125
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