Ariane 44L launched a dual payload from Kourou: PAS-2, a PanAmSat communications satellite covering the Pacific Rim, and BS-3N, a Japanese direct-broadcast satellite, both delivered to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 8 July 1994, 23:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-040
- Launches in 1994
- 43rd of 93
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