14 August 2007, 23:44 UTC
Singtel Optus & Australian Department of Defence
Dual-payload Ariane 5 ECA mission launched Spaceway-3, a Hughes broadband communications satellite for North America, and BSAT-3a, a Japanese HDTV broadcasting satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit from Kourou.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.5 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 14 August 2007, 23:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2007-036
- Launches in 2007
- 38th of 68
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