Proton-M/Briz-M carried Nimiq 2, a Telesat Canada geostationary broadcast satellite with 32 Ku-band transponders for HDTV and interactive television, to orbit from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 29 December 2002, 23:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-062
- Launches in 2002
- 65th of 65
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