An Ariane 44L launched JCSAT 8, a Boeing BSS-601 communications satellite for Japan's JSAT Corporation, to replace the aging JCSAT 2 spacecraft and provide broadcasting and telecommunications services across the Asia-Pacific region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.5 T
- Flight
- 35th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 29 March 2002, 01:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-015
- Launches in 2002
- 15th of 65
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