Attempted to deliver three Uragan (GLONASS) navigation satellites—Kosmos 1917, 1918, and 1919—to medium Earth orbit from Baikonur; the Block DM-2 upper stage failed and the satellites did not separate, leaving them useless.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 17 February 1988, 00:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1988-009
- Launches in 1988
- 10th of 121
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