Proton-M/Briz-M launched Anik F1R, a Telesat Canada communications satellite operating in C- and Ku-band, from Baikonur into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.5 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 8 September 2005, 21:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2005-036
- Launches in 2005
- 39th of 56
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