Ariane 5 ECA carried a dual payload of ProtoStar-1, providing HD broadcast and internet services to Southeast Asia for Bermuda-based ProtoStar, and Badr-6, an Arabsat video-broadcasting satellite for the Middle East and North Africa, into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 7 July 2008, 21:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-034
- Launches in 2008
- 34th of 69
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