Ariane 44L launched Galaxy 11 from Kourou, PanAmSat's first Boeing BSS-702-model satellite, providing direct broadcast and cable television distribution across the Americas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.5 T
- Flight
- 29th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 1999, 00:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-071
- Launches in 1999
- 76th of 78
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