Launched Astra 1G, a Hughes HS-601HP direct-broadcast satellite for SES, from Baikonur aboard a Proton-K/Blok DM-2M, expanding the Astra fleet's television and communications capacity over Europe.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.2 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1997, 23:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-076
- Launches in 1997
- 79th of 89
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