A Proton-K/DM-2 launched a trio of GLONASS navigation satellites, Kosmos 1970, 1971, and 1972, from Baikonur into medium Earth orbit, testing components of the Soviet satellite navigation system for military and civil positioning.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.9 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 16 September 1988, 02:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1988-085
- Launches in 1988
- 89th of 121
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