Ariane 3 flight V21 dual-launched GTE Spacenet 3R and France Télécom’s Télécom 1C communications satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Kourou; Spacenet 3R replaced the Spacenet 3 lost on Ariane’s 1985 failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 11 Ariane 3 flights
- Date and time
- 11 March 1988, 23:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 3
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-018
- Launches in 1988
- 19th of 121
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