Ariane 5 ECA launched TerreStar-1, at the time the heaviest commercial telecommunications satellite ever flown (about 6,910 kg), into geostationary transfer orbit. The mobile satellite was built to provide integrated satellite-terrestrial communications over North America.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.9 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 1 July 2009, 17:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2009-035
- Launches in 2009
- 37th of 78
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