Dual-payload flight carrying the UK's Skynet 5B military communications satellite and Brazil's Star One C1 commercial satellite, setting an Ariane 5 ECA commercial payload record above 9.5 tonnes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.2 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 14 November 2007, 22:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2007-056
- Launches in 2007
- 59th of 68
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