Raduga 20 (Gran 31L), a Soviet dual-use geostationary communications satellite on the KAUR-3 bus, launched on a Proton-K/DM from Baikonur. It provided C-band military and civilian telephone, telegraph, and Orbita TV links across the Eastern Hemisphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 61st
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 19 March 1987, 03:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-028
- Launches in 1987
- 28th of 114
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