Launched the Zarya Functional Cargo Block, the first module of the International Space Station, from Baikonur. Built by Khrunichev under a NASA contract, Zarya provided the fledgling station's initial power, propulsion and guidance.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 20.3 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 1998, 06:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-067
- Launches in 1998
- 72nd of 82
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