On October 26 of 1976, a Proton-K launch vehicle carrying a new television broadcasting satellite Ekran was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
“Ekran” was the name given to a series of Soviet artificial Earth satellites and a satellite television system designed to retransmit color and black-and-white programs from the central television network to a network of multi-access receivers located in settlements across Siberia and the Far North.
The Ekran satellite television system consisted of the following elements: a ground-based transmission complex with a transmitter operating in the centimeter-wave band (located in the Moscow Region); the Ekran satellite; a network of simple receiving devices, which, in combination with cable distribution systems or low-power TV repeaters, provided transmission of television programs to subscribers' TV sets in the meter-wave band.
The orbital vehicles of this series were designed at Joint-Stock Company Academician M. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (a subsidiary of the Roscosmos State Corporation).
The commemorative stamp provides a symbolic image of a launch vehicle being launched into space; the main image features the Ekran satellite in space against the backdrop of the Earth, along with symbolic images of a satellite antenna and a television antenna.
| Denomination |
Paper |
Printing method |
Format of the postal card |
Edition |
| Letter “B” |
Chalk surfaced |
Offset |
105 × 148 mm |
7.5 thousand postcards |