Launched Telesat's Anik F3 communications satellite, a Eurostar 3000S spacecraft with C, Ku and Ka-band transponders providing DVB broadcasting and broadband services across Canada and beyond for a planned 12-plus-year life.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.6 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 9 April 2007, 22:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2007-009
- Launches in 2007
- 11th of 68
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