On the debut flight of the Ariane 42L configuration, the rocket carried a dual payload to geostationary transfer orbit: Astra 1C, a direct-broadcast TV satellite for SES, and Arsene, a French amateur-radio satellite built by CNES.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 12 May 1993, 00:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-031
- Launches in 1993
- 31st of 83
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