Proton-K/DM-2 launched the classified Potok data-relay satellite from Baikonur into geostationary orbit, part of the Soviet network relaying communications between Mir, other spacecraft, and ground control.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 37th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1989, 11:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-101
- Launches in 1989
- 102nd of 102
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