Carried Spainsat, Spain's first dedicated secure government communications satellite, and Hot Bird 7A, a Eutelsat broadcasting satellite for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, into geostationary transfer orbit on Arianespace's fourth launch attempt for the mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 11 March 2006, 22:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-007
- Launches in 2006
- 7th of 66
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