Launched Gorizont 16, a Soviet geostationary communications satellite stationed at 80 degrees East to provide telephone, telegraph, and television broadcasting relay across the USSR and allied countries.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 18 August 1988, 19:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-071
- Launches in 1988
- 75th of 121
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