Launched a dual payload of Soviet communications satellites, the military Raduga 27 and civilian Gorizont 24, into geostationary transfer orbit on a single Proton-K/DM-2.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 48th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 1991, 05:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-014
- Launches in 1991
- 14th of 91
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