Launched the Ekspress-AM3 communications satellite from Baikonur to geostationary transfer orbit for the Russian Satellite Communications Company, expanding domestic broadcast and telecom capacity.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 104th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 2005, 19:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-023
- Launches in 2005
- 26th of 56
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