Launched Priroda, the seventh and final Mir space station module, carrying Earth-remote-sensing instruments for a joint US-Russian science program. A power-connector fault halved its available electricity, but it still docked successfully three days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.5 T
- Flight
- 27th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 23 April 1996, 11:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1996-023
- Launches in 1996
- 24th of 77
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