Proton-M/Briz-M launched MEASAT-3, a Boeing HS-601HP communications satellite for Malaysian operator MEASAT, directly into geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.8 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 2006, 23:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-056
- Launches in 2006
- 59th of 66
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