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\<COLOUR 1> SATELLITE: \<COLOUR 0> Raduga 1 \<COLOUR 1> TYPE: \<COLOUR 0> Communications \<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> December 22, 1975 \<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia \<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH VEHICLE: \<COLOUR 0> Proton \<COLOUR 1> ORBIT: \<COLOUR 0> Geostationary \<COLOUR 1> SIZE: \<COLOUR 0> Cylinder, 5 metres long? 2 metres diameter? \<COLOUR 1> WEIGHT: \<COLOUR 0> 2 tonnes? \<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR \<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> First Soviet geostationary comsat in Raduga ('Rainbow') series; series still current (30 by mid-1992); domestic communications.