Proton-K/DM launched Inmarsat-3 F2, a mobile communications satellite for the Inmarsat network, providing maritime, aeronautical and land telephony coverage over the Atlantic Ocean Region-East from 15.5°W.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 89th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 1996, 17:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-053
- Launches in 1996
- 57th of 77
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