Proton-K/DM-2M launched the Ekspress-A3 communications satellite from Baikonur for Russia's state operator, providing television and telecom relay from geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 2000, 00:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-031
- Launches in 2000
- 33rd of 85
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