Gorizont 18 (s/n 25L), a Soviet geostationary communications satellite launched aboard a Proton-K/DM from Baikonur as part of the Gorizont series relaying television, telephone and Okean earth-observation data across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 64th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 31 March 1988, 04:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-028
- Launches in 1988
- 29th of 121
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