Launched Sirius 2, a Spacebus 3000B2 direct-broadcast satellite for the Nordic Satellite Distribution consortium, from Kourou aboard an Ariane 44L, providing Ku- and C-band television services to Scandinavia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.5 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 12 November 1997, 21:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-071
- Launches in 1997
- 74th of 89
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