Proton-K/DM-2 launched Raduga 1-6, a Russian military geostationary communications satellite, from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 99th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 6 October 2001, 16:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2001-045
- Launches in 2001
- 46th of 59
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