Arianespace's first flight of 2002 carried India's INSAT 3C communications satellite from Kourou into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The 2,750 kg satellite was the eighth Indian spacecraft launched by Ariane and also marked the year's first commercial launch worldwide.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 23 January 2002, 23:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-002
- Launches in 2002
- 2nd of 65
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