Proton-K/DM3 launched Sirius Radiosat-2, the second of Sirius Satellite Radio's three-satellite constellation, into a highly elliptical Tundra orbit to broadcast digital radio across the United States.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 24th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 5 September 2000, 09:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-051
- Launches in 2000
- 53rd of 85
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