Launched PanAmSat's PAS-4 geostationary communications satellite from Kourou. Built by Hughes on the HS-601 bus with 20 C-band and 30 Ku-band transponders, PAS-4 served as an orbital spare after the earlier loss of PAS-3 in a launch failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 3 August 1995, 22:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-040
- Launches in 1995
- 44th of 80
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