Arianespace flight V66 carried Brasilsat B1, Brazil's second-generation domestic communications satellite, and Turksat 1B, a Turkish broadcast and telecom satellite, from Kourou to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.7 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 10 August 1994, 23:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-049
- Launches in 1994
- 52nd of 93
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