Launched a trio of GLONASS navigation satellites (Kosmos 2079, 2080 and 2081, s/n 46L/49L/52L) from Baikonur to expand the Soviet GLONASS constellation then under development.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.9 T
- Flight
- 39th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 19 May 1990, 08:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1990-045
- Launches in 1990
- 47th of 121
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