Launched MSAT-1 (AMSC-2), a Canadian Hughes-built geostationary satellite providing L-band mobile telephone and data coverage across North America, including Alaska, Hawaii, and coastal waters.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 15 Ariane 42P flights
- Date and time
- 20 April 1996, 22:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-022
- Launches in 1996
- 23rd of 77
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