Placed Eutelsat 9B into geostationary transfer orbit for Eutelsat's 9 degrees East slot, a 56-transponder Ku-band satellite serving European broadcast markets that also hosts the first laser-relay payload for Europe's EDRS data-relay system.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 54th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 29 January 2016, 22:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-005
- Launches in 2016
- 5th of 85
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