Proton K/DM-2 launched Raduga 22, a Soviet KAUR-3 geostationary communications satellite carrying separate military and civilian C-band transponders for telephone, telegraph and Orbita television relay across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 27th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 1988, 15:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-095
- Launches in 1988
- 99th of 121
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