Dual-payload flight VA207 orbited EchoStar XVII (Jupiter 1), a high-throughput Ka-band broadband satellite for Hughes Network Systems, and MSG-3, a Meteosat Second Generation weather satellite for EUMETSAT.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 35th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 5 July 2012, 21:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Dedicated Rideshare
- International designator
- 2012-035
- Launches in 2012
- 37th of 78
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