SPOT 3, a French CNES Earth-imaging satellite, rode into orbit alongside the geodetic satellite Stella, Portugal's first satellite Posat-1, and several amateur radio microsats on the final flight of the Ariane 40 with a classic H10 upper stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 7 Ariane 40 flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 1993, 01:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 40
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1993-061
- Launches in 1993
- 64th of 83
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