Proton-K with a Block DM2 upper stage deployed seven Iridium satellites into their operational low Earth orbit plane from Baikonur, one of the largest single satellite deployments of the original Iridium constellation buildup.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.9 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 6 Proton-K/17S40 flights
- Date and time
- 7 April 1998, 02:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/17S40
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-021
- Launches in 1998
- 22nd of 82
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