Ekran 18, a Soviet direct-broadcast television relay satellite serving remote Siberian and Far Eastern communities, launched into geostationary orbit aboard a Proton-K/DM booster from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 65th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 6 May 1988, 02:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-036
- Launches in 1988
- 37th of 121
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