Ariane 44LP launched Intelsat 701, an FS-1300 series communications satellite for Intelsat with 26 C-band and 10 Ku-band transponders, to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Kourou.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.7 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 22 October 1993, 06:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-066
- Launches in 1993
- 70th of 83
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