Launched the Telstar 402 communications satellite from Kourou into geostationary transfer orbit; a hydrazine leak reacting with a pyro-valve's combustion gases caused the satellite's propulsion system to explode days later, destroying it before service began.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1994, 00:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-058
- Launches in 1994
- 61st of 93
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