Proton-K/Blok DM-2 carried the Raduga-1 (Raduga 1-3) military communications satellite from Baikonur to geostationary orbit at 48 degrees East, joining the earlier Raduga 1-2 spacecraft in the Soviet/Russian strategic communications network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 69th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 5 February 1994, 08:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-008
- Launches in 1994
- 9th of 93
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