Proton-K flew with the Briz-M upper stage for the first successful time, delivering the Gorizont-45 communications satellite to geosynchronous orbit from Baikonur after a 1999 Briz-M debut had failed in flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 4 Proton-K/Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 6 June 2000, 02:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-029
- Launches in 2000
- 31st of 85
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