ILS Proton-M launched the Intelsat 31 (DLA-2) communications satellite from Baikonur despite a first-stage underperformance that required the Briz-M upper stage to compensate. The Ku- and C-band satellite co-located with Intelsat 30 at 95 degrees West to support DirecTV Latin America services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.5 T
- Flight
- 56th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 9 June 2016, 07:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-035
- Launches in 2016
- 35th of 85
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