Proton-K/DM-2 launched the Raduga 1-5 military communications relay satellite for the Russian Ministry of Defence into geostationary orbit at 45 degrees East.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 96th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 August 2000, 20:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-049
- Launches in 2000
- 51st of 85
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