Ariane flight V50 carried two payloads to geostationary transfer orbit: France's Telecom 2B domestic communications satellite and Inmarsat-2 F4, the fourth satellite in Inmarsat's second-generation maritime and aeronautical communications fleet.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 15 April 1992, 23:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1992-021
- Launches in 1992
- 22nd of 97
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