Carried the GE-1A telecommunications satellite, built by Lockheed Martin for Americom Asia-Pacific, from Baikonur into geostationary transfer orbit to provide Ku-band broadcast services over eastern Asia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 1 October 2000, 22:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-059
- Launches in 2000
- 61st of 85
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