Ariane 44LP launched Mexico's Solidaridad 1 communications satellite for Telmex to geosynchronous transfer orbit, along with the ESA Meteosat 6 weather satellite and GE Americom's Satcom C3 as co-passengers.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.7 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 1993, 01:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-073
- Launches in 1993
- 77th of 83
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