Zenit-3F launched Russia's Elektro-L No.2 geostationary weather satellite from Baikonur, the rocket's first flight in 18 months and likely its final launch given halted Russia-Ukraine cooperation; the satellite began a 10-year mission imaging weather from Europe to the Asia-Pacific.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 4 Zenit-3F flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 2015, 13:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-3F
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2015-074
- Launches in 2015
- 78th of 87
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