2000 October 21 - Launch Site: Kiritimati. Launch Complex: Odyssey. Launch Pad: Sea Launch Odyssey. Launch Vehicle: Zenit-3SL. Model: Zenit-3SL. LV Configuration: Zenit 3SL s/n 5.

• Thuraya 1 Program: Thuraya. Payload: Thuraya 1A. Mass: 5,108 kg (11,261 lb). Class: Communications. Spacecraft: HS 702. Manufacturer: Boeing-ES. Agency: Thuraya. Perigee: 35,764 km (22,222 mi). Apogee: 35,808 km (22,250 mi). Inclination: 5.20 deg. Period: 1,436.10 min. COSPAR: 2000-066A. USAF Sat Cat: 26578. Mobile Communications satellite. Launch delayed from September 18 and October 19. Stationed at 44 deg E. The first Boeing GEM satellite, Thuraya 1, was built by Boeing/El Segundo (formerly Hughes). It was based on the HS-702 design but featured a large 12-m diameter truss antenna for L-band mobile telephone service. Launch mass of Thuraya was 5108 kg; dry mass probably around 3000 kg. The satellite was to be delivered after on orbit testing to Etisalat, the Emirates Telecom Corp of Abu Dhabi, and its Thuraya Satellite subsidiary. Thuraya was launched from the Odyssey platform in the Pacific Ocean positioned on the equator at 154 deg W. The two-stage Yuzhnoe Zenit core delivered Thuraya and its Energiya Blok DM-SL upper stage to a -2212 x 182 km suborbital trajectory. The first DM-SL burn placed the stack in a 180 x 200 km x 6.3 deg parking orbit at 0604 GMT; a second burn at 0733 GMTput Thuraya in a 210 x 35891 km x 6.3 deg geostationary transfer orbit. A later depletion burn lowered the DM-SL stage perigee to 180 km, as burns by Thuraya's liquid engine raised it towards geosynchronous orbit. Positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 44 deg E in 2000. As of 5 September 2001 located at 44.22 deg E drifting at 0.003 deg E per day. As of 2007 Mar 11 located at 98.57E drifting at 0.007W degrees per day.References: 4, 552, 554. Level: 1.

• Thuraya 2 Program: Thuraya. Mass: 5,177 kg (11,413 lb). Class: Communications. Spacecraft: HS 702. Manufacturer: Boeing Satellite Systems. Agency: Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications. Perigee: 35,766 km (22,223 mi). Apogee: 35,806 km (22,248 mi). Inclination: 5.00 deg. Period: 1,436.10 min. COSPAR: 2003-026A. USAF Sat Cat: 27825. The Boeing 'GEM' spacecraft was a modified BSS-702 with a 12 m wide antenna for L-band mobile communications. Launch delayed from January 20, then April 4. As of 2007 Mar 9 located at 43.94E drifting at 0.004E degrees per day. Level: 1.