Sea Launch's floating Odyssey platform lofted Hughes/DIRECTV's Spaceway 1 Ka-band broadcast satellite toward geostationary transfer orbit, then the heaviest commercial GTO payload flown at 6,080 kg.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 2005, 07:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-015
- Launches in 2005
- 15th of 56
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