Sea Launch Zenit orbits heaviest commercial payload
A Zenit-3SL lifted the heaviest commercial payload on record to geostationary transfer orbit over the weekend from the Sea Launch Odyssey platform on the Equator in the Pacific Ocean. Liftoff of the 11,260-pound Thuraya-1 satellite came at 1:52 a.m. Sunday EDT from the equatorial launch position at...
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