Launched Ekspress-AM1, a Russian domestic communications satellite for the Russian Satellite Communications Company, from Baikonur. The spacecraft carried 28 transponders (9 C-band, 18 Ku-band, 1 L-band) for TV, telephony and data services across Russia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 39th
- of 41 Proton-K/DM-2M flights
- Date and time
- 29 October 2004, 22:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM-2M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2004-043
- Launches in 2004
- 44th of 54
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