Launched the PAS-9 (PanAmSat 9) communications satellite, a Hughes HS-601HP with 48 C- and Ku-band transponders, to provide broadcast, direct-to-home, and general communications services across the Americas, the Caribbean, and western Europe.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 2001, 01:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2001-019
- Launches in 2001
- 19th of 59
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