Dual-launched the Arabsat-5C and SES-2 communications satellites to geostationary transfer orbit from Kourou, marking the 60th flight of an Ariane 5.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.3 T
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 21 September 2011, 21:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2011-049
- Launches in 2011
- 52nd of 84
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