Asiasat 3S Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

21 Mar 1999, 12:09am

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Site

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Pad

81/23 (81L)

Launch Service Provider

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Vehicle

Proton-K/DM-2M image

Proton-K/DM-2M

Mission

Asiasat 3S

Mission Type

Communications

Destination

Geostationary Orbit

Chinese communications satellite. Built to replace AsiaSat 3 which was lost due to a failure of the Proton-K launch vehicle during the second burn of the fourth stage.

Updated: Jan 3, 7:58pm UTC

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