Proton-M/Briz-M launched the Satmex 8 communications satellite for Mexican operator Satmex (Eutelsat 117 West A), delivering the 5,500 kg spacecraft to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T
- Flight
- 30th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 26 March 2013, 19:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2013-012
- Launches in 2013
- 13th of 81
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