Sea Launch's floating Odyssey platform sent a Zenit-3SL rocket aloft carrying Thuraya-2, a 5,177 kg Boeing-built mobile communications satellite providing voice, fax and data service across the Middle East, North Africa and Central/Southern Asia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.2 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 2003, 13:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-026
- Launches in 2003
- 26th of 63
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