Proton-K/DM-2 launched Raduga 21 (Gran 32L), a Soviet dual-use geostationary communications satellite from Baikonur, carrying C-band military and civilian transponders for government, defense, and Orbita network traffic.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 10 December 1987, 11:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-100
- Launches in 1987
- 104th of 114
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