Delivered the Hughes-built DIRECTV 1-R direct-broadcast satellite to geostationary transfer orbit from the Odyssey floating platform in the Pacific Ocean. This was Sea Launch's first commercial mission, following a successful demonstration flight earlier in 1999.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 36 Zenit 3SL flights
- Date and time
- 10 October 1999, 03:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit 3SL
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Launch Platform Odyssey, Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-056
- Launches in 1999
- 58th of 78
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