Boeing Sea Launch's first commercial mission, lifting off from the Odyssey floating platform in the Pacific and placing Thuraya 1, a UAE mobile communications satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 21 October 2000, 05:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-066
- Launches in 2000
- 68th of 85
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