Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL lifted off from the Odyssey platform in the Pacific carrying Eutelsat 70B, a 48-transponder Ku-band communications satellite built by Astrium on the Eurostar E3000 bus to serve Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, South East Asia and Africa. It was Sea Launch's final mission of 2012.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 5.3 T
- Flight
- 34th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 3 December 2012, 20:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2012-069
- Launches in 2012
- 72nd of 78
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