Launched the PAS-10 (PanAmSat 10) communications satellite from Baikonur, positioned at 68.5°E to deliver direct-to-home television and communications services across Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 29th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 16 June 2001, 01:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2001-025
- Launches in 2001
- 25th of 59
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