Launched Satmex 5, a Hughes-built communications satellite for Mexico's Satelites Mexicanos, from Kourou into geostationary transfer orbit to provide broadcast and telecom coverage across the Americas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.1 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 6 December 1998, 00:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-070
- Launches in 1998
- 75th of 82
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