he Dutch New Skies Satellites’ NSS-6 telecommunications spacecraft was developed by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems.
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.
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Mission Profile
NSS 6 was a Ariane 44L mission operated by Arianespace that lifted off from Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana on December 17, 2002. The flight carried its payload on a communications mission to Geostationary Orbit. The launch was a success.