Tele-X, a Swedish-led Nordic direct-broadcast and communications satellite, launched from Kourou into geostationary transfer orbit, later providing television and data-relay services across Scandinavia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 6 Ariane 2 flights
- Date and time
- 2 April 1989, 02:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 2
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-027
- Launches in 1989
- 27th of 102
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