Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL, flying from the Odyssey platform in the Pacific, launched PanAmSat's PAS-9 communications satellite. This was Sea Launch's return to flight after the March 2000 loss of the ICO Global ICO-F1 satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.7 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 28 July 2000, 22:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-043
- Launches in 2000
- 45th of 85
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