Eutelsat W5

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 20 Nov 2002, 10:39 pm UTC

Rocket: Delta IV M+(4,2) (Delta)

Provider: Boeing

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geosynchronous Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

EUTELSAT W5 was a European (EUTELSAT Consortium) geostationary communication spacecraft. EUTELSAT W5 was to provide voice, video, and Internet services to all countries in western Europe, central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent