An Ariane 44L launched Intelsat 605 (Intelsat VI F-5), a 4,296 kg international communications satellite, from Kourou into geostationary transfer orbit to relay telephone and television traffic over the Atlantic Ocean region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 14 August 1991, 23:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-055
- Launches in 1991
- 57th of 91
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