Ariane 44LP launched Orion 2, a Loral-built commercial communications satellite for Orion Network Systems, into geostationary orbit at 15 degrees West to relay transatlantic and European traffic alongside Loral Skynet's Telstar satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 19 October 1999, 06:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-059
- Launches in 1999
- 61st of 78
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