Launched the Telstar 7 communications satellite, an FS-1300-based spacecraft weighing about 3,790 kg, from Kourou to provide fixed satellite services over the Americas for Loral Skynet.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 25 September 1999, 06:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-052
- Launches in 1999
- 54th of 78
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