Proton-K/DM-2 launched the Gorizont 23 communications satellite from Baikonur into geostationary transfer orbit. Stationed at 53 degrees East, the roughly 2,125 kg spacecraft relayed telephone, telegraph, and television traffic across the Soviet Union.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 50th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 1 July 1991, 21:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-046
- Launches in 1991
- 48th of 91
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