Ariane 2 flight V26 deployed TDF-1, a French direct-broadcast television satellite for France Telecom, from Kourou into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 6 Ariane 2 flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1988, 02:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 2
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-098
- Launches in 1988
- 102nd of 121
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