Proton-K/DM-2 from Baikonur launched Cosmos 1778–1780, three Uragan (GLONASS) navigation satellites—the eighth GLONASS mission and the first with all three payloads active in medium Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 16 September 1986, 11:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1986-071
- Launches in 1986
- 76th of 110
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