Dual-payload flight VA237 launched ViaSat-2, a broadband satellite for ViaSat Inc. covering the Americas and transatlantic routes, and Eutelsat 172B, the first all-electric satellite orbited by an Ariane 5. The mission set a new Ariane 5 GTO performance record of 10,865 kg.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.4 T
- Flight
- 62nd
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 1 June 2017, 23:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-029
- Launches in 2017
- 31st of 90
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