Orbited Telstar 6 (later renamed Galaxy 26), a Loral-built C/Ku-band communications satellite for Loral Skynet providing video and data services to the continental US, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Latin America from 93°W.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.5 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 15 February 1999, 05:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-005
- Launches in 1999
- 5th of 78
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