Proton-K/DM-2 launched the Gorizont 39L communications satellite from Baikonur, but a propellant contamination fault in the Block DM-2 upper stage caused a second/third-burn failure, leaving the satellite stranded short of geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 65th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 27 May 1993, 01:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1993
- 36th of 83