Launched Almaz-1, a Soviet TKS-derived radar-imaging satellite carrying synthetic aperture radar for geology, agriculture, cartography, and ice-monitoring, marking the Almaz program's return after a decade-long hiatus.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 18.5 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 31 March 1991, 15:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1991-024
- Launches in 1991
- 24th of 91
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