Orbited AsiaSat 3S, a Hughes HS-601HP communications satellite built to replace AsiaSat 3, which a 1997 Proton failure had stranded in a useless orbit; AsiaSat 3S carried C- and Ku-band transponders for Asian broadcast and telecom services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 21 March 1999, 00:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-013
- Launches in 1999
- 13th of 78
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