Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL lifted off from the Odyssey platform in the Pacific carrying EchoStar 9 (also marketed as Telstar 13), a hybrid Ku/C-band communications satellite built to provide direct broadcast and data services for EchoStar and Loral Skynet, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 2003, 03:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-034
- Launches in 2003
- 34th of 63
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