Proton-M/Briz-M launched Badr-4 (Arabsat-4B), an Astrium-built Eurostar E2000+ communications satellite for Arabsat, into geostationary transfer orbit to provide C- and Ku-band coverage from 26 degrees East.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 8 November 2006, 20:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-051
- Launches in 2006
- 54th of 66
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