Ariane 44L launched a dual payload from Kourou: DBS-1 for DirecTV, the first high-power direct broadcast satellite for US television, and Thaicom 1, Thailand's first communications satellite, both reaching geostationary transfer orbit successfully.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 1993, 01:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-078
- Launches in 1993
- 82nd of 83
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