Launched Astra 1D, an SES direct-broadcast television satellite, from Kourou into geostationary transfer orbit to expand the Astra fleet serving Europe.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 15 Ariane 42P flights
- Date and time
- 1 November 1994, 00:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-070
- Launches in 1994
- 73rd of 93
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