Ariane 5 carried a dual payload to geostationary transfer orbit: Optus and Defence C1, a hybrid civil-military communications satellite for Australia's Optus and Department of Defence, and Japan's BSAT-2c broadcast satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.4 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 16 Ariane 5 G flights
- Date and time
- 11 June 2003, 22:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 G
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-028
- Launches in 2003
- 28th of 63
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