Ariane 44P launched ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) into a highly elliptical orbit, making it the world's first true orbiting infrared observatory; its helium-cooled 60cm telescope studied the universe for over two years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 15 Ariane 44P flights
- Date and time
- 17 November 1995, 01:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1995-062
- Launches in 1995
- 68th of 80
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