Proton-K/DM-2 from Baikonur attempted to place Kosmos 1817, the first Ekran-M direct-broadcast TV satellite for Siberia and the Far North, into GEO, but the Blok-DM-2 failed to start from a control-system fault, leaving it in a useless low orbit.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 30 January 1987, 09:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-010
- Launches in 1987
- 10th of 114
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