Deployed three Uragan (GLONASS) navigation satellites—Kosmos 1883, 1884, and 1885—into medium Earth orbit from Baikonur for the Soviet global navigation constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 16 September 1987, 02:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1987-079
- Launches in 1987
- 83rd of 114
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