Sea Launch Zenit-3SL deployed Loral's Telstar 18 (Apstar 5) communications satellite from the Odyssey platform, but the Block DM upper stage shut down about 54 seconds early due to a wiring fault, leaving the satellite in a lower-than-planned transfer orbit; onboard thrusters later raised it to geostationary altitude.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.8 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 29 June 2004, 03:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2004-024
- Launches in 2004
- 24th of 54
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