Proton-K/Blok DM-2 launched Luch 1 (Altair), a Russian geostationary data-relay satellite used to relay telemetry and communications from Mir and other Russian spacecraft, into Direct-GEO orbit from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 83rd
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 11 October 1995, 16:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-054
- Launches in 1995
- 59th of 80
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