Third Ariane 5 qualification flight (503), carrying the MaqSat 3 instrument package to monitor booster performance and the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator (ARD), an 80%-scale Apollo-capsule-shaped test vehicle for a possible ISS crew rescue craft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.2 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 16 Ariane 5 G flights
- Date and time
- 21 October 1998, 16:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 G
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Dedicated Rideshare
- International designator
- 1998-059
- Launches in 1998
- 64th of 82
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