A Proton-K/Blok DM-2M launched KazSat-1, Kazakhstan's first communications satellite, watched at Baikonur by the presidents of Kazakhstan and Russia; the satellite later suffered a control system failure and was declared lost in 2008.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 41st
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 17 June 2006, 22:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-022
- Launches in 2006
- 23rd of 66
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