Proton-M/Briz-M launched the Badr 4 (Arabsat 4B) communications satellite, built on the Eurostar 2000 platform by EADS Astrium, to provide Ku-band television and communications services across Arab League countries.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.9 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 4 August 2006, 21:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-032
- Launches in 2006
- 35th of 66
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