Launched SES's Astra 1B direct-broadcast television satellite to geostationary transfer orbit, sharing the Ariane 44LP flight with the European Meteosat-5 weather satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 2 March 1991, 23:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-015
- Launches in 1991
- 15th of 91
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