Carried Hot Bird 3 and Meteosat 7 in a dual-payload launch from Kourou. Hot Bird 3 expanded Eutelsat's European broadcast fleet while Meteosat 7 was the last of ESA's first-generation weather satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 2 September 1997, 22:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-049
- Launches in 1997
- 51st of 89
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