Launched PAS-8, a Hughes HS-601 communications satellite for PanAmSat, from Baikonur directly into geostationary orbit to provide broadcast and data services over the Pacific region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 4 November 1998, 05:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-065
- Launches in 1998
- 70th of 82
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