Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL orbited DIRECTV 11, a Boeing-built high-definition television broadcast satellite, from the Odyssey platform in the Pacific; the mission had been delayed from November 2007 after an earlier Sea Launch pad failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 19 March 2008, 22:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-013
- Launches in 2008
- 13th of 69
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