Gorizont 18, a Soviet civilian communications satellite, launched on a Proton-K/Block DM-2 from Baikonur and was stationed at 140 degrees East to relay telephone, telegraph, and television broadcasts until 1996.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 34th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 5 July 1989, 22:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-052
- Launches in 1989
- 53rd of 102
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