Proton-K/Blok DM-2M launched the Ekspress-AM22 Russian communications satellite from Baikonur into geostationary transfer orbit, providing C, Ku, and L-band transponder capacity from its 40 degrees East slot.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 37th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 2003, 23:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-060
- Launches in 2003
- 62nd of 63
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