Dual-payload launch carrying PanAmSat 7 (PAS-7), a communications satellite serving the Indian Ocean region, and Inmarsat 3 F5, a maritime and aeronautical mobile communications satellite for the Inmarsat network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 19th
- of 26 Ariane 44LP flights
- Date and time
- 16 September 1998, 06:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44LP
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-052
- Launches in 1998
- 57th of 82
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