Launched the Raduga 28 military communications satellite into geostationary orbit from Baikonur. It was the final Proton launch conducted under the Soviet Union, days before the USSR's formal dissolution.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 54th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 19 December 1991, 11:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-087
- Launches in 1991
- 90th of 91
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