Dual-payload flight delivering Arabsat-3A, a Spacebus-3000 satellite for the Arab League's telecom and broadcast fleet at 26°E, and the UK Ministry of Defence's Skynet 4E military communications satellite, both to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 26 February 1999, 22:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-009
- Launches in 1999
- 9th of 78
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