Launched Astra 1F for SES, the first Western commercial satellite ever flown on a Proton rocket and the inaugural mission of International Launch Services' Proton-K/DM-2M.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 8 April 1996, 23:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-021
- Launches in 1996
- 22nd of 77
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