Arianespace flight V98 launched the PAS-6 communications satellite for PanAmSat, a Space Systems/Loral-built spacecraft with 36 Ku-band transponders serving the South American market.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 15 Ariane 44P flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 1997, 06:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-040
- Launches in 1997
- 42nd of 89
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