Proton-K/DM-2 launched Gorizont 19, a Soviet geostationary communications satellite, from Baikonur to station at 97.5 degrees East for long-distance telephone, telegraph, and television relay across the USSR.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 36th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1989, 11:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-098
- Launches in 1989
- 99th of 102
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