Proton-K/DM-2 launched Kosmos 1897 (Luch/Altair 12L), the second Soviet geostationary data-relay satellite, from Baikonur to support Mir, Soyuz-TM, and military spacecraft communications with ground control.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 26 November 1987, 13:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-096
- Launches in 1987
- 100th of 114
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