Launched JCSAT-5, a geostationary communications satellite for Japan's JSAT Corporation, from Kourou aboard an Ariane 44P, expanding telecommunications and broadcasting capacity over Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 15 Ariane 44P flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1997, 22:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-075
- Launches in 1997
- 78th of 89
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