Ariane 5 ECA carried two telecom satellites to GTO: Hispasat's Amazonas-2, expanding Spanish- and Portuguese-language coverage over the Americas, and COMSATBw-1, Germany's first military communications satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.3 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 1 October 2009, 21:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2009-054
- Launches in 2009
- 57th of 78
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