Ariane 5 flight VA230 launched EchoStar 18, a direct-broadcast satellite for Dish Network's U.S. TV service, alongside BRIsat, the world's first communications satellite owned and operated by a bank (Indonesia's Bank Rakyat Indonesia). The combined payload set a new Ariane 5 GTO lift record.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.3 T
- Flight
- 56th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 2016, 21:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-039
- Launches in 2016
- 39th of 85
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