Proton-K/DM from Baikonur placed Gorizont 14 (23L), a geostationary communications satellite of the YeSSS unified system, providing Soviet telephone, telegraph, TV, and radio relay services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 62nd
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 11 May 1987, 14:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-040
- Launches in 1987
- 42nd of 114
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