Raduga 1-1, the inaugural satellite of the modernized 'Raduga-1' (Globus) military communications series, launched on a Proton-K/Block DM-2 from Baikonur, succeeding the earlier Raduga generation with expanded relay capacity.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 21 June 1989, 23:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-048
- Launches in 1989
- 49th of 102
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