Launched the ST-1 communications satellite from Kourou for Singapore Telecom and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom. The Matra Marconi Eurostar 2000+ spacecraft, carrying 16 Ku-band and 14 C-band transponders, reached geostationary orbit at 88 degrees East.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 15 Ariane 44P flights
- Date and time
- 25 August 1998, 23:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44P
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-049
- Launches in 1998
- 51st of 82
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