Proton-K/DM-2M launched DirecTV-5 (originally built as Tempo 1 for PrimeStar) from Baikonur, a direct-broadcast satellite acquired by DirecTV in its PrimeStar buyout and flown after years in storage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 7 May 2002, 17:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-023
- Launches in 2002
- 23rd of 65
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