Carried Afristar, the first WorldSpace satellite, a Eurostar 2000+ spacecraft designed to broadcast digital radio across Africa and the Middle East via three L-band beams receivable on handheld radios.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.9 T
- Flight
- 27th
- of 40 Ariane 44L flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1998, 22:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-063
- Launches in 1998
- 68th of 82
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