Potok 5 (Geizer), a Soviet military data-relay satellite of the second-generation GKKRS command-and-control network, launched from Baikonur into geostationary orbit to relay telegraph, telephone and reconnaissance data from Yantar-4KS1 satellites to ground stations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 24th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 1 August 1988, 21:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-066
- Launches in 1988
- 70th of 121
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