March 19, 2001 Korolev, Moscow region

On March 19, 2001, at 1h. 33min. 30s Moscow Time (on March 18, 2001 at 22h. 33min. 30s MGT) the next Zenit-3SL launch vehicle has been launched from the Sea Launch Rocket and Space Complex.
The launch task is to deliver the XM Radio-2 spacecraft weighing 4.7 tons to the target geosynchronous transfer orbit with the following parameters: perigee altitude - 906 km, apogee altitude - 35786 km, inclination - 1.25°.
Direct injection into the target orbit from the transfer orbit formed by the Zenit-2S two-stage launch vehicle was performed by Block DM-SL as an Upper Stage.
The spacecraft injected into the orbit is designed to provide live broadcasting from the geosynchronous orbit at the orbital point 115° west longitude.
Launch was performed from the Odyssey floating launch platform that is located in the Pacific Ocean in the equator area at 115° west longitude near the Christmas Island.
Spacecraft are launched from the sea-based cosmodrome by Sea Launch, an international joint-stock company whose stockholders are American Boeing Company, Russian Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation, Norwegian company Kvaerner Invest Norge AS and Ukrainian aerospace enterprises - PO Yuzhmashzavod and Yangel SDO Yuzhnoye.
Korolev RSC Energia is a prime company responsible for the Rocket Segment of the Sea Launch Complex, among them for its outfitting and integration into the Complex as a whole, as well as for development and operation (in cooperation with more than 30 Russian and Ukrainian enterprises) of Rocket Segment components, such as Block DM-SL Upper Stage, Complex of Automated Control Systems of Processing and Launch, Upper Stage Flight Control System, Measurement Complex, hypergolic components/gas filling system, testing and handling equipment for the Upper Stage.
Control of prelaunch processing and launch was performed via radio links from the control center located on board the Assembly/Command Ship (ACS).
The time of Upper Stage and spacecraft flight from the lift-off from the Odyssey platform to their separation was 1h. 5 min. 17 s.
Control of Upper Stage and spacecraft flight was supported by a special operational control group of Korolev RSC Energia specialists residing at the Mission Control Center (MCC-M), Korolev, Moscow Area.
Yu.P. Semenov, Korolev RSC Energia President, General Designer, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, managers and specialists of the Corporation, subcontractors were present in the MCC-M control room during processing and launch.
It is already the sixth launch performed from the Odyssey platform. The fifth one took place on October 21, 2000.