Ariane 42P launched EchoStar 2, a direct-broadcast television satellite for EchoStar Communications, into geostationary transfer orbit — the final flight of the Ariane 42P variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 15 Ariane 42P flights
- Date and time
- 11 September 1996, 00:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-055
- Launches in 1996
- 59th of 77
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