Orbited the Intelsat 802 communications satellite, a Lockheed Martin-built HS-601 series spacecraft (about 3,415 kg) added to the Intelsat fleet for international telephony and television relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 15 Ariane 44P flights
- Date and time
- 25 June 1997, 23:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-031
- Launches in 1997
- 33rd of 89
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