Proton-M/Briz-M launched Astra 1M, a direct-to-home broadcast satellite for SES positioned at 19.2 degrees East to provide pan-European television coverage; it was the last Phase I commercial Proton Briz-M mission flown for SES.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 5 November 2008, 20:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-057
- Launches in 2008
- 59th of 69
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