Dual-payload Ariane 5 flight VA224 deployed MSG-4, the last of EUMETSAT's Meteosat Second Generation weather satellites, and Star One C4, a Brazilian telecom satellite for Embratel Star One, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8 T
- Flight
- 50th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 15 July 2015, 21:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2015-034
- Launches in 2015
- 37th of 87
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