MISSION NAME
Hot Bird 3 & Meteosat 7 7
Status
Success
DATE
2 SEP 1997
LAUNCH PROVIDER
Arianespace
Launch Pad
Ariane Launch Area 2
Description
Hot Bird 3 is a geostationary communications satellite. Meteosat 7 is an European meteorological satellite.
Ariane 44LP
Rocket Description
The Ariane 4 was an expendable space launch system, developed by the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was manufactured by ArianeGroup and marketed by Arianespace. Since its first flight on 15 June 1988 until the final flight on 15 February 2003, it attained 113 successful launches out of 116 total launches.