Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL lofted Koreasat 5 (Mugunghwa 5) from the Odyssey platform in the Pacific, South Korea's first combined civil and military communications satellite, carrying Ku-band, C-band and SHF transponders for broadband and broadcast services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 22 August 2006, 03:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-034
- Launches in 2006
- 37th of 66
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