First flight of Sea Launch's Zenit-3SL from the Odyssey floating platform on the equator, carrying the instrumented DemoSat mass simulator of a Boeing HS-702 bus to validate the sea-based commercial launch system ahead of paying customers.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 28 March 1999, 01:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1999-014
- Launches in 1999
- 14th of 78
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