SkyTerra-1

Carried SkyTerra-1, a 5,400 kg L-band mobile satellite for North American mobile communications, to geostationary transfer orbit from Baikonur. The Briz-M upper stage completed five burns over about nine hours before releasing the satellite.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

6.4 T

Flight

17th

of 33 Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced flights

Date and time

14 November 2010, 17:29 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2010-061

Launches in 2010

63rd of 74

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