Proton-K/DM from Baikonur launched Cosmos 1738 (Potok #3 / Geizer 13L), a military geostationary data-relay satellite linking Soviet ground stations with electro-optical reconnaissance spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 56th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 4 April 1986, 03:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-027
- Launches in 1986
- 29th of 110
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