Proton-K launched the Zvezda service module, the third element of the International Space Station, from Baikonur. Zvezda supplied the station's early life-support, propulsion, and living quarters, docking with the Zarya module on 26 July 2000.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 20.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 29th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 12 July 2000, 04:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2000-037
- Launches in 2000
- 39th of 85
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