Orbited Raduga-1, a Russian military communications satellite, to geostationary orbit as part of the Ministry of Defence's strategic and government communications network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 93rd
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 1999, 04:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-010
- Launches in 1999
- 10th of 78
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