Launched Telesat Canada's Nimiq 1 direct-broadcast television satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, into geostationary transfer orbit to provide coast-to-coast Canadian DTH TV service from 91 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 20 May 1999, 22:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-027
- Launches in 1999
- 28th of 78
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