Dual-payload Ariane 44LP flight V38 from Kourou carried the UK Ministry of Defence's Skynet 4C military communications satellite alongside Eutelsat 2 F1, a European civilian relay satellite that entered service at 13 degrees East the following month.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1990, 22:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-079
- Launches in 1990
- 83rd of 121
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