Ariane 5 ECA launched a dual payload to GTO: Brazil's first government communications-and-defense satellite SGDC, and South Korea's Koreasat-7 for expanded coverage over Korea, the Philippines, Indochina, India and Indonesia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 61st
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 4 May 2017, 21:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-023
- Launches in 2017
- 24th of 90
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