Proton-K/DM-2 from Baikonur placed Cosmos 1888 (Potok #4, Geizer 15L), a military geostationary data-relay satellite, into GEO to pass C-band digital imagery and traffic from Yantar reconnaissance spacecraft to ground stations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 1 October 1987, 17:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-084
- Launches in 1987
- 88th of 114
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