Launched Telecom 2A, the first of France's second-generation domestic Telecom communications and television satellites, from Kourou.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 1991, 23:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-084
- Launches in 1991
- 87th of 91
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