Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL lofted XM Radio's XM-4 broadcast satellite (later renamed Rhythm) from the Odyssey platform near Kiritimati to geostationary transfer orbit, expanding capacity for XM Satellite Radio's US broadcasts.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.2 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 30 October 2006, 23:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-049
- Launches in 2006
- 52nd of 66
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