
ILS Proton-M/Briz-M launched SES-6, a 6-tonne Eurostar-3000 communications satellite for SES with C- and Ku-band payloads covering the Americas and Atlantic Ocean Region, into a supersynchronous transfer orbit after a 15-hour, five-burn Briz-M flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 3 June 2013, 09:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2013-026
- Launches in 2013
- 27th of 81
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