Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL lofted SICRAL 1B, an Italian military communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space, from the Odyssey platform at the equator to geostationary transfer orbit, providing secure comms for Italian forces and NATO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 30th
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 20 April 2009, 08:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2009-020
- Launches in 2009
- 22nd of 78
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