LaunchesPAS 6B
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PAS 6B
Ariane 42L · Communications
1998Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre
Mission
In March 1998, Hughes Space and Communications Company of El Segundo, Calif., was selected by PanAmSat Corporation of Greenwich, Conn., to build PAS-6B, a Hughes HS-601HP spacecraft model to provide direct-to-home television transmissions in South America. The satellite was launched Dec. 21, 1998.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Pad
- Ariane Launch Area 2
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2