Ariane 40, in its final flight, carried France's Helios 1B military optical reconnaissance satellite, built with Italian and Spanish participation, into a sun-synchronous orbit alongside the small Clementine technology satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Ariane 40 flights
- Date and time
- 3 December 1999, 16:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 40
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-064
- Launches in 1999
- 68th of 78
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