Ekspress AM8

Carried the Russian Ekspress-AM8 communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit from Baikonur, marking the first fully successful mission for the Blok DM-03 upper stage after two earlier failures.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

3.1 T

Flight

3rd

of 8 Proton-M Blok DM-03 flights

Date and time

14 September 2015, 19:00 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M Blok DM-03

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

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

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2015-048

Launches in 2015

51st of 87

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