Carried India's INSAT-4A telecommunications satellite and Europe's second-generation Meteosat, MSG-2, into geostationary transfer orbit in a dual-payload mission, after repeated delays earlier in 2005.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 6 Ariane 5 GS flights
- Date and time
- 21 December 2005, 22:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 GS
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Dedicated Rideshare
- International designator
- 2005-049
- Launches in 2005
- 53rd of 56
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