West German direct-broadcast satellite TVSAT 2, built on the Spacebus 300 platform, rode Ariane 4's 33rd flight (an Ariane 44LP) into geostationary transfer orbit and went on to serve television and radio relay from 19 degrees West until 1999.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 1989, 23:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-062
- Launches in 1989
- 63rd of 102
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