Proton-M/Briz-M launched the Intelsat 10-02 communications satellite from Baikonur, at the time the heaviest single payload ever placed into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 16 June 2004, 22:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2004-022
- Launches in 2004
- 22nd of 54
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