Proton-M/Briz-M orbited Inmarsat-4 F3, the third satellite in Inmarsat's I-4 series, extending global mobile satellite communications coverage including the Pacific Ocean region after launch from Baikonur into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 18 August 2008, 22:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-039
- Launches in 2008
- 41st of 69
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