30 September 2015, 20:30 UTC
Sky Muster I (NBN-Co 1A) & ARSAT-2
Ariane Flight VA226 carried two geostationary communications satellites: Australia's Sky Muster (NBN Co 1A) high-throughput broadband satellite and Argentina's ARSAT-2, launched from Kourou.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.9 T
- Flight
- 52nd
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 30 September 2015, 20:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2015-054
- Launches in 2015
- 57th of 87
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