Launched Gorizont 19, a Soviet geostationary communications satellite, to 97.5 degrees East. It relayed long-distance telephone, telegraph and the Orbita television network across the USSR's eastern regions alongside government and military traffic.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 35th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 1989, 17:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-081
- Launches in 1989
- 82nd of 102
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