Launched France's Helios 1A, Europe's first military optical reconnaissance satellite (with Italian and Spanish participation), alongside the experimental Cerise signals-intelligence microsatellite and LBSat-1, on an Ariane 40 from Kourou.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 Ariane 40 flights
- Date and time
- 7 July 1995, 16:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 40
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1995-033
- Launches in 1995
- 37th of 80
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