Launched PAS-6B, a Hughes HS-601HP direct-broadcast satellite for PanAmSat, from Kourou. The 3,475 kg satellite with 32 Ku-band transponders replaced the ailing PAS-6 and entered service over South America at 43 degrees W.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 1998, 01:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-075
- Launches in 1998
- 80th of 82
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