Launched Ekran 19, an Ekran-M direct-broadcast military communications satellite, into geostationary orbit to relay Soviet television programming and secure communications to remote regions of the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 10 December 1988, 11:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-108
- Launches in 1988
- 113th of 121
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