Proton-K/DM-2 launched the Raduga 21 (s/n 32L) military communications satellite from Baikonur to geostationary transfer orbit, joining the Raduga fleet relaying Soviet government and defense traffic.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 19th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1987, 11:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-109
- Launches in 1987
- 113th of 114
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