Final flight of the Ariane 4 family, deploying the Intelsat 907 C/Ku-band communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit and closing out the launcher's run of 113 successes in 116 flights since 1988.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 40th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 15 February 2003, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-007
- Launches in 2003
- 7th of 63
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