Proton-K/Briz-M launched AMC-9 (GE-12), an Alcatel Spacebus 3000B3 communications satellite for SES Americom, into geostationary orbit to provide C- and Ku-band broadcast coverage over North America.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 4 Proton-K/Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 6 June 2003, 22:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-024
- Launches in 2003
- 24th of 63
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