Proton-M/Briz-M suffered a first/second-stage separation failure caused by a damaged pyrotechnic cable and crashed in Kazakhstan, destroying the JCSAT-11 communications satellite and ending a nearly two-decade string of successful JCSAT launches.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 15th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 5 September 2007, 22:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 2007
- 40th of 68