Proton-K/DM-2M launched Ekspress 2, the second satellite in Russia's Ekspress domestic telecom and TV-relay series, into geostationary transfer orbit for Russia's state satellite communications operator.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 1996, 17:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-058
- Launches in 1996
- 62nd of 77
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