Kvant-1, Mir's first add-on module, launched on a Proton-K from Baikonur with a jettisonable TKS-derived FSB tug. The astrophysics module carried the international Roentgen X-ray observatory and gyrodynes for station attitude control and docked to Mir's aft port.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 20.6 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 31 March 1987, 00:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1987-030
- Launches in 1987
- 32nd of 114
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