Nimiq 4, a Telesat Canada direct-broadcast satellite built by EADS Astrium on a Eurostar-3000S bus, launched from Baikonur to 82°W to deliver HDTV service across Canada and the United States.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.9 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 19 September 2008, 21:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-044
- Launches in 2008
- 46th of 69
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas