Eutelsat W7

Deployed Eutelsat W7, a Thales Alenia Space-built Spacebus 4000C4 communications satellite, co-located with W4 at 36 degrees East to expand Eutelsat's TV broadcast capacity over Europe, Africa and Asia.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

GTO

Geostationary transfer orbit

Payload to orbit

6.6 T

Flight

9th

of 33 Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced flights

Date and time

24 November 2009, 14:19 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Communications

International designator

2009-065

Launches in 2009

68th of 78

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