Launched Sirius Satellite Radio's third satellite (Sirius 3) into an elliptical transfer orbit, completing the three-satellite constellation that enabled Sirius's US satellite radio broadcasting service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 27th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 30 November 2000, 19:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-077
- Launches in 2000
- 79th of 85
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