Dual-payload Ariane 5 flight VA222 launched Thor 7, a Norwegian Ku-band broadcast satellite for Telenor, and Sicral 2, a joint Italian-French military communications satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.4 T
- Flight
- 48th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 2015, 20:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2015-022
- Launches in 2015
- 23rd of 87
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