Ariane 5 ECA's dual-payload flight from Kourou delivered Star One C2, a Brazilian communications satellite for South America, and Vinasat-1, Vietnam's first satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 18 April 2008, 22:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-018
- Launches in 2008
- 18th of 69
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