Ariane 5 ECA flight VA229 launched Eutelsat 65 West A, a 6,707 kg communications satellite for Eutelsat, into geostationary transfer orbit to provide video and broadband coverage over Latin America, especially Brazil, from 65 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T
- Flight
- 55th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 9 March 2016, 05:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-014
- Launches in 2016
- 14th of 85
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