Carried the SES Astra 2A direct-broadcast satellite from Baikonur to geostationary transfer orbit. The Hughes-built HS-601HP spacecraft took the 28.2 degrees East slot, with half its 28 transponders pre-booked by BSkyB to launch the Sky Digital service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 11th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1998, 00:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-050
- Launches in 1998
- 53rd of 82
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