Sea Launch mission from the Odyssey platform on the equatorial Pacific carried Japan's JCSAT-9 communications satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, into geostationary transfer orbit to serve Southeast Asia and Hawaii.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 12 April 2006, 23:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-010
- Launches in 2006
- 11th of 66
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