Launched GOMS-1 (Elektro-1), Russia's first geostationary meteorological satellite, from Baikonur. Attitude-control sensor problems delayed positioning and later degraded its imagery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 76th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 31 October 1994, 14:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1994-069
- Launches in 1994
- 72nd of 93
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