PanAmSat's PAS-5 (PanAmSat 5) communications satellite, a Hughes HS-601HP, launched to geostationary transfer orbit on a Proton-K/Blok DM-3. From 58 degrees West it carried C- and Ku-band transponders serving the Americas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 28 August 1997, 00:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-046
- Launches in 1997
- 48th of 89
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