This Ariane 5 carried two geostationary communications satellites: AsiaStar, a digital audio broadcasting satellite for WorldSpace, and Insat 3B, an Indian multipurpose satellite for telecom, broadcasting and search-and-rescue. A Japanese NASDA antenna-deployment experiment, LDREX, failed to deploy.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.3 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 16 Ariane 5 G flights
- Date and time
- 21 March 2000, 23:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 G
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-016
- Launches in 2000
- 18th of 85
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