Launched Inmarsat-5 F3 to a supersynchronous transfer orbit, delivering Global Xpress broadband coverage to the Pacific Ocean region; the mission marked Proton-M's return to flight after a May 2015 Mexsat-1 failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T
- Flight
- 50th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 28 August 2015, 11:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2015-042
- Launches in 2015
- 45th of 87
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