Carried the Arabsat-4A communications satellite, but the Briz-M upper stage shut down about 27 minutes into a planned 31-minute burn after a valve malfunction, stranding the satellite in a useless orbit from which it soon decayed. It was Proton-M's first launch failure.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 2006, 20:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-006
- Launches in 2006
- 6th of 66
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