Ariane 1 flight L-04 from Kourou lofted ESA’s MARECS-1 maritime mobile communications satellite plus the CAT-4 technology payload into geostationary transfer orbit, delivering Europe’s first dedicated ship-to-shore L-band relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 11 Ariane 1 flights
- Date and time
- 20 December 1981, 01:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 1
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1981-122
- Launches in 1981
- 125th of 126
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