Ariane 3 from Kourou dual-deployed Arabsat-1A for the Arab Satellite Communications Organization and Brasilsat-A1 for Brazil's Embratel toward GEO. Arabsat-1A later suffered solar-panel failures; Brasilsat-A1 became Brazil's first domestic communications satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 11 Ariane 3 flights
- Date and time
- 8 February 1985, 23:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 3
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1985-015
- Launches in 1985
- 15th of 125
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