Raduga 30, a Soviet/Russian military communications relay satellite, was placed into geostationary transfer orbit and moved to its operating slot at 85 degrees East to support strategic and government communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 66th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 30 September 1993, 17:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-062
- Launches in 1993
- 65th of 83
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