A Proton-K/Blok DM-2 launched Raduga 23, a Soviet military communications satellite and the first of an alternate Raduga design, into geostationary orbit at 49 degrees East from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 14 April 1989, 04:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-030
- Launches in 1989
- 30th of 102
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