Launched Kupon, a geostationary communications satellite built for Russia's Central Bank to carry secure banking transaction data over its Bankir network, from Baikonur aboard a Proton-K/Blok DM-2M.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 12 November 1997, 17:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-070
- Launches in 1997
- 73rd of 89
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