Raduga 25, a Soviet military and government communications satellite, launched aboard a Proton-K/DM-2 from Baikonur into geostationary transfer orbit to relay government and defense communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 38th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 15 February 1990, 07:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-016
- Launches in 1990
- 16th of 121
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