Placed Ekran 16 (Ekran 29L), a Soviet geosynchronous direct-broadcast television satellite, into geostationary orbit from Baikonur to deliver Central Television to Siberia and the Far North.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 63rd
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 3 September 1987, 19:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-073
- Launches in 1987
- 77th of 114
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