Dual launch of ST-2, a relay satellite for Singapore Telecom and Chunghwa Telecom covering Asia and the Middle East, and India's GSAT-8, which carries communications transponders plus the GAGAN satellite-navigation payload.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 20 May 2011, 20:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2011-022
- Launches in 2011
- 23rd of 84
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