Carried the Yamal-101 and Yamal-102 communications satellites from Baikonur toward geostationary orbit for Russia's Gazkom. Yamal-101 was lost after an electrical fault prevented its solar panels deploying, while Yamal-102 reached orbit successfully and entered service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.7 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 1999, 16:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-047
- Launches in 1999
- 49th of 78
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