Flight VA201 from Kourou carried Yahsat 1A, a UAE telecom satellite, and Intelsat New Dawn, an Africa-focused broadband and TV satellite, to GTO, setting a new Ariane 5 commercial payload record of over 10,000 kg.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.4 T
- Flight
- 30th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 22 April 2011, 21:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2011-016
- Launches in 2011
- 17th of 84
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