Launched ERS-2, the European Space Agency's second European Remote Sensing satellite, carrying radar and atmospheric instruments to monitor Earth's land, oceans and ozone layer.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.7 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 7 Ariane 40 flights
- Date and time
- 21 April 1995, 01:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 40
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1995-021
- Launches in 1995
- 24th of 80
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