Carried the AMC-23 (GE-23) communications satellite for SES Americom into geostationary transfer orbit, providing Ku-band multimedia and telecommunications services to Pacific Rim countries and the U.S. West Coast.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 29 December 2005, 02:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-052
- Launches in 2005
- 56th of 56
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