Deployed Gorizont 31, a Russian civilian geostationary communications satellite for domestic television and telephony relay, stationed at 39.8°E after launch by a Proton-K/Blok DM-2 from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 86th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 25 January 1996, 09:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-005
- Launches in 1996
- 5th of 77
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