Ariane 42P launched Galaxy 7, a Hughes HS-601 communications satellite for Hughes Communications providing C-band and Ku-band television and data services to the United States and Caribbean from geostationary orbit at 91 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 15 Ariane 42P flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1992, 00:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1992-072
- Launches in 1992
- 74th of 97
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