OREANDA-NEWS. June 01, 2012. On June 1st, 2012 at 8 pm 23 minutes on Kyiv time from floating platform Odyssey in the Pacific Ocean within the project Sea Launch has successfully been launched Zenit-3SL carrier rocket which is put into a geostationary orbit the American space apparatus Intelsat 19 weighing 5,536 kg. The Zenit launch vehicle is developed by the State Enterprise Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and made by the State Enterprise Production Association Southern Machine-Building Plant in cooperation with Russian and Ukrainian enterprises.

The Intelsat-19 satellite is created by American company Space Systems Loral on the order of the global satellite operator Intelsat. The spacecraft is intended to provide high-quality broadcasting in Australia as well as distributions of the international video information through Asia and the Pacific Ocean to the western part of the United States. The mentioned launch became thirty-second launching the Zenit-3SL space rocket within the framework of Sea Launch program.