Proton-K/DM-2 launched Cosmos 2379, a Russian Oko-series early-warning satellite designed to detect US missile launches via infrared sensors, into geostationary orbit from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 98th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 24 August 2001, 20:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2001-037
- Launches in 2001
- 37th of 59
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