Ariane 44L carried two geostationary communications satellites in a dual-payload launch: Arabsat 2B for the Arab Satellite Communications Organization and Measat 2 for Malaysia's Binariang, both built on Aerospatiale's Spacebus 3000 platform.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 13 November 1996, 22:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-063
- Launches in 1996
- 67th of 77
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