Sea Launch fired a Zenit-3SL from the equatorial Odyssey platform in the Pacific to place Inmarsat-4 F2, a Eurostar 3000-class satellite with a 9-meter unfurlable antenna for global mobile broadband and voice service, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 8 November 2005, 14:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-044
- Launches in 2005
- 48th of 56
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