Mar 6 1989
From The Space Library
After several delays, an ESA Ariane 4 launch vehicle was successfully launched from the Kourou launch center in French Guiana. The 195-foot Ariane 4 carried Japan's fast commercial communications satellite and a European weather station into low Earth orbits, from where the two satellites would later boost themselves into 22,300-mile geosynchronous orbits. This was the third launch of the new Ariane 4 launch vehicle, one of the most powerful boosters available for commercial satellite launches. (SSR 1989 020A-D; UPI, Mar 6/89)
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