Proton-K/DM-2M launch from Baikonur carrying the Astra 1G communications satellite ended in failure when the Block DM-2M upper stage malfunctioned, stranding the spacecraft in a useless transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 24 December 1997, 23:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-086
- Launches in 1997
- 89th of 89
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