Dual-payload flight carrying Eutelsat W2, a Spacebus 3000B2 telecom satellite for European coverage, and Sirius 3, a Swedish direct-broadcast satellite delivering television services to Scandinavia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.8 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 5 October 1998, 22:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-056
- Launches in 1998
- 61st of 82
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