Launched the DirecTV-8 direct broadcast satellite, a 3,711 kg Ku-band spacecraft, from Baikonur to geostationary transfer orbit to expand DirecTV's US satellite television capacity.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 22 May 2005, 17:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-019
- Launches in 2005
- 19th of 56
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