Deployed Insat-2E, an ISRO multipurpose satellite carrying C- and S-band communications transponders and a meteorological imager, to geostationary transfer orbit; it was later stationed at 83°E for Indian telecom and weather services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 15 Ariane 42P flights
- Date and time
- 2 April 1999, 22:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-016
- Launches in 1999
- 16th of 78
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