Proton-K/Block DM launched EchoStar VIII, a direct-broadcast television satellite for EchoStar Communications, into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 22 August 2002, 05:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-039
- Launches in 2002
- 39th of 65
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