Ariane 5 ECA flight V172 launched a dual payload of JCSAT-10, providing fixed satellite services for Japan, the Asia-Pacific region and Hawaii, and Syracuse 3B, a French military communications satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.2 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 11 August 2006, 22:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-033
- Launches in 2006
- 36th of 66
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