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AsiaSat 3

Rocket launch

by Russia

Launch time24 Dec 199723:19 UTC

partial failure

Orbit: GTO

Serial number: 394-01

Commercial launch conducted by International Launch Services, upper stage failed one second into second burn resulting in lower perigee than expected, spacecraft corrected its orbit at significant cost to operational life.

Rocket ProtonK/DM3 8K82K/11S861-01

launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Pad 81/23Kazakhstan

Payloads

NamePurposeMassComment
AsiaSat 3Communications--