Launched Superbird 5 (N-SAT-110), a Ku-band communications satellite jointly owned by Japan's SCC and JSAT, from Kourou into geostationary transfer orbit toward a slot at 110 degrees East.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 6 October 2000, 23:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-060
- Launches in 2000
- 62nd of 85
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