Proton-M/Briz-M launched the AMC-12 (Worldsat 2) communications satellite for SES Americom, the first Alcatel Spacebus 4000 satellite to fly, from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 3 February 2005, 02:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-003
- Launches in 2005
- 3rd of 56
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