Ariane 5 flight VA246 launched India's GSAT-11 communications satellite, ISRO's heaviest ever at 5,855 kg, and South Korea's GEO-KOMPSAT-2A weather and space-weather satellite from Kourou in a dual-payload mission to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.8 T
- Flight
- 69th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 4 December 2018, 20:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Dedicated Rideshare
- International designator
- 2018-100
- Launches in 2018
- 102nd of 114
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