DirecTV 12

Launched DIRECTV 12, a Ku/Ka-band direct broadcast satellite built by Space Systems/Loral for DirecTV to expand HD television capacity over the continental United States.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

GTO

Geostationary transfer orbit

Payload to orbit

6.9 T

Flight

10th

of 33 Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced flights

Date and time

29 December 2009, 00:22 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

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

Payload

Communications

International designator

2009-075

Launches in 2009

78th of 78

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