Ariane 5 ECA carried the JCSAT-17 communications satellite for Sky Perfect JSAT, built by Lockheed Martin, alongside South Korea's GEO-KOMPSAT-2B environmental satellite carrying the GOCI-II ocean imager and GEMS air-quality spectrometer, both deployed to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.7 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 11 Ariane 5 ECA+ flights
- Date and time
- 18 February 2020, 22:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA+
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2020-013
- Launches in 2020
- 14th of 114
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