Kosmos 2172, a Potok (Geizer) military relay satellite built by Lavochkin, relaying reconnaissance data from Yantar imaging satellites to ground stations, launched from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 53rd
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 22 November 1991, 13:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-079
- Launches in 1991
- 82nd of 91
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