Ariane flight VA241 carried the SES-14 and Al Yah 3 communications satellites, but a guidance programming error caused an unplanned roll after liftoff and loss of telemetry, leaving both satellites in the wrong orbit; they later reached their targets using onboard propulsion.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Super-GTO
- Supersynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.7 T
- Flight
- 65th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 25 January 2018, 22:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2018-012
- Launches in 2018
- 12th of 114
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