Telkom-3 & Ekspress MD2

Carried Indonesia's Telkom-3 and Russia's Ekspress-MD2 communications satellites, but the Briz-M upper stage's third burn cut off after only 7 seconds due to a faulty pressurization component, stranding both satellites in unusable orbits and prompting a grounding of Proton-M launches.

Outcome

Partial

Payload to orbit

4.1 T

Flight

29th

of 33 Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced flights

Date and time

6 August 2012, 19:31 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2012-044

Launches in 2012

46th of 78

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