A Land Launch Zenit-3SLB lofted Telstar 11N, an SS/L 1300-based Ku-band communications satellite, from Baikonur; the roughly 4,012 kg spacecraft was destined for 37.5 degrees West to connect North America, Europe and Africa.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 6 Zenit 3SLB flights
- Date and time
- 26 February 2009, 18:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SLB
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2009-009
- Launches in 2009
- 10th of 78
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