Ekspress-A2, a Russian geostationary communications satellite operated by RSCC, launched on this Proton-K/DM-2M from Baikonur to replace aging Soviet-era relay spacecraft and provide TV, radio and telephone links across Russia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 12 March 2000, 04:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-013
- Launches in 2000
- 14th of 85
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