The first Land Launch mission, a Zenit-3SLB flying from Baikonur, orbited Israel's AMOS-3 communications satellite for Spacecom. It was also the first three-stage Zenit launch from Baikonur and the first commercial Zenit flight there since a 1998 Globalstar failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 Zenit 3SLB flights
- Date and time
- 28 April 2008, 05:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SLB
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-022
- Launches in 2008
- 22nd of 69
See it in orbit
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