Ariane 44L launched a dual-payload mission from Kourou carrying the GE-2 communications satellite for GE Americom and the Inmarsat-2 F4 mobile communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.8 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 30 January 1997, 22:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-002
- Launches in 1997
- 3rd of 89
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