Deployed DirecTV 3 (DBS-3), a Hughes HS-601 direct broadcast satellite for the US DirecTV service, serving as an in-orbit backup for the DBS fleet at 101 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 15 Ariane 42P flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1995, 00:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-029
- Launches in 1995
- 32nd of 80
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