A Zenit-3F/Fregat-SB launched AngoSat-1, Angola's first communications satellite, from Baikonur toward geostationary transfer orbit. Ground controllers lost telemetry with the spacecraft shortly after separation, and it was later declared a total loss.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 4 Zenit-3F flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 2017, 19:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-3F
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-086
- Launches in 2017
- 90th of 90
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