Proton-K launched Sirius FM-1 (Sirius 1), the first satellite in the Sirius Satellite Radio constellation, into a highly elliptical Tundra orbit to beam digital audio radio service across North America.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 30 June 2000, 22:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-035
- Launches in 2000
- 37th of 85
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