Proton-K/DM from Baikonur placed Ekran 15 (Ekran 30L) into geostationary orbit as a Soviet direct-to-home television broadcast satellite serving remote regions of the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 57th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 24 May 1986, 01:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-038
- Launches in 1986
- 42nd of 110
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