Dual-payload Ariane 5 flight VA223 launched DirecTV-15, a US direct-broadcast satellite for HD/4K television, and Sky Mexico-1 for Mexican pay-TV provider Sky, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.8 T
- Flight
- 49th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 27 May 2015, 21:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2015-026
- Launches in 2015
- 28th of 87
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