Dual payload launch of Intelsat 706, an Intelsat VII-class communications satellite, and Turksat 1B, a Turkish domestic communications satellite, both into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.2 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 17 May 1995, 06:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-023
- Launches in 1995
- 26th of 80
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