Ariane 3 flight V24 lofted India's Insat 1C multipurpose satellite and Eutelsat's ECS-5 (Eutelsat 1F5) regional telecommunications satellite from Kourou into geostationary transfer orbit, the ninth flight of the Ariane 3 variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 11 Ariane 3 flights
- Date and time
- 21 July 1988, 23:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 3
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-063
- Launches in 1988
- 66th of 121
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