Orbited Helios 2B, a French military optical reconnaissance satellite and the second in the Helios 2 series, providing high-resolution imagery for French and allied European defense needs.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.2 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 6 Ariane 5 GS flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 2009, 16:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 GS
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2009-073
- Launches in 2009
- 76th of 78
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