Proton-K/DM from Baikonur placed Raduga 18 (Gran 29L) into geostationary orbit as a Soviet dual-use military and civilian communications satellite for television, telephone, and government relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 55th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 17 January 1986, 10:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-007
- Launches in 1986
- 7th of 110
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