Dual payload launch carrying the Inmarsat 3-F4 mobile communications satellite and India's Insat 2D satellite from Kourou; Inmarsat 3-F4 provided C- and Ku-band capacity for global maritime, aeronautical and land mobile services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 24th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 3 June 1997, 23:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-027
- Launches in 1997
- 29th of 89
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