Launched the AMC-15 communications satellite for SES Americom from Baikonur. Built by Lockheed Martin on the A2100AXS bus with a mass of about 4,021 kg, it was placed into geostationary transfer orbit to provide broadcast and communications services over North America.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 14 October 2004, 21:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2004-041
- Launches in 2004
- 42nd of 54
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