Ariane 3 flight V19 from Kourou dual-launched Aussat A3 (later Optus A3) for Australian domestic communications and ECS-4 (Eutelsat-1 F4) for European telecommunications into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 11 Ariane 3 flights
- Date and time
- 16 September 1987, 00:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 3
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-078
- Launches in 1987
- 82nd of 114
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