Ariane 42L launched Telstar 402R, an AT&T-owned, Lockheed-built commercial communications satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit from Kourou to provide North American broadcast and data relay services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 19 October 1995, 00:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-055
- Launches in 1995
- 60th of 80
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