Carried Spaceway F2, a DirecTV broadcast satellite, and Telkom-2, an Indonesian communications satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit — the heaviest dual-payload mission the Ariane 5 ECA had launched to date.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.5 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 16 November 2005, 23:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-046
- Launches in 2005
- 50th of 56
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