Ariane 42P launched France's SPOT-5 Earth-imaging satellite, carrying a 2.5-meter-resolution HRVIR camera, along with the small amateur-radio secondary payload Idefix -- the final flight of the Ariane 42P variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 15 Ariane 42P flights
- Date and time
- 4 May 2002, 01:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2002-021
- Launches in 2002
- 21st of 65
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