Olympus 1, the European Space Agency's large experimental communications and direct-broadcast satellite, flew on the final launch of the Ariane 3 rocket, setting a record at the time for the heaviest payload delivered to geostationary transfer orbit at 2.7 tonnes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 11 Ariane 3 flights
- Date and time
- 12 July 1989, 00:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 3
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-053
- Launches in 1989
- 54th of 102
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