Launched the EchoStar 4 direct-broadcast satellite from Baikonur for EchoStar/PanAmSat. After reaching geostationary orbit, two panels on one solar array failed to unfold, crippling much of its transponder capacity for years; the array spontaneously deployed in 2004.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 7 May 1998, 23:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-028
- Launches in 1998
- 29th of 82
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