Proton-K/DM from Baikonur placed Gorizont 12 (Gorizont 24L) into geostationary orbit as a Soviet dual-use communications satellite for television, telephone, and government relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 58th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1986, 00:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-044
- Launches in 1986
- 49th of 110
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