Ariane 5 ECA orbited a dual commercial payload to GTO: SES's NSS-12 broadcast satellite covering the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, and Telenor's Thor 6 direct-to-home TV satellite for Europe, together the heaviest commercial GTO payload launched to that date.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.1 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 29 October 2009, 20:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2009-058
- Launches in 2009
- 61st of 78
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