Placed Loral Skynet's Telstar 6 communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Baikonur. The 3,700 kg satellite carried a mixed C- and Ku-band payload and was stationed in geostationary orbit at 93 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.5 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 1999, 01:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-033
- Launches in 1999
- 34th of 78
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