Proton-K/DM-2 launched the Raduga 26 military communications satellite from Baikonur into geostationary transfer orbit, part of the Soviet Ministry of Defence's fixed-satellite relay network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 45th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 20 December 1990, 11:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-112
- Launches in 1990
- 117th of 121
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