Dual payload launch of Brasilsat B2, a Hughes HS-376 communications satellite for Brazil's domestic network, and Hotbird 1, Eutelsat's first direct-broadcast satellite for Europe.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 28 March 1995, 23:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-016
- Launches in 1995
- 19th of 80
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