Launched the Ekspress-AMU1 communications satellite for the Russian Satellite Communications Company from Baikonur, adding capacity for TV broadcast, internet and government communications across Russia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T
- Flight
- 53rd
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 24 December 2015, 21:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2015-082
- Launches in 2015
- 86th of 87
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