Dual-payload Ariane 5 flight VA232 deployed the Intelsat 33e and Intelsat 36 communications satellites, setting a new Ariane 5 record GTO payload mass of 10,735 kg in the vehicle's 73rd consecutive success.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.2 T
- Flight
- 57th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 24 August 2016, 22:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-053
- Launches in 2016
- 53rd of 85
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