Ariane 44LP failed 12 minutes after liftoff from Kourou when its third-stage turbopump overheated, destroying Turkey's first satellite, Turksat 1A, and the Eutelsat II F5 communications satellite before they could reach orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 10th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 1994, 21:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1994
- 3rd of 93