Ariane 44LP launch from Kourou carrying Brasilsat B3, a Hughes HS-376W communications satellite for Brazil's Embratel, delivered to geostationary transfer orbit for service at 65 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 4 February 1998, 23:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-006
- Launches in 1998
- 7th of 82
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