Proton-K/DM-2 from Baikonur placed Cosmos 1894, a US-KS (Oko-S) missile early-warning satellite, into geostationary orbit to detect U.S. ICBM launches with infrared telescopes as a continuous GEO backup to the HEO Oko constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 16th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1987, 15:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-091
- Launches in 1987
- 95th of 114
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