Proton-K/DM-2 launched the Raduga-1 military communications satellite (serial no. 12) to geostationary orbit at 49 degrees East, the second flight of the redesigned Raduga-1 satellite bus for Soviet government and defense comms.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 46th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1990, 11:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-116
- Launches in 1990
- 121st of 121
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