Proton-K/Block DM-2 launched the Gorizont 26 communications satellite from Baikonur to geostationary orbit at 103°E, relaying Russian television and radio broadcasts to Siberia and the country's eastern regions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 57th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 1992, 22:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1992-043
- Launches in 1992
- 44th of 97
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