Ariane 44L flight V150 launched NSS-7, a Lockheed Martin A2100-class communications satellite for SES's New Skies Satellites, carrying a C/Ku-band payload into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 36th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 16 April 2002, 23:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-019
- Launches in 2002
- 19th of 65
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