Ariane flight V39 orbited two US communications satellites: SBS-6, a Hughes HS 376 spacecraft for Satellite Business Systems with C- and Ku-band transponders, and Galaxy 6, a companion Hughes comsat, both bound for geostationary orbit from Kourou.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.9 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 12 October 1990, 22:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-091
- Launches in 1990
- 96th of 121
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