flown missionFailure
Atlas I | BS-3H
General DynamicsLaunch Complex 36B — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.
mission
- Name
- BS-3H
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)
Two Ku-band DTH satellites were originally ordered by STC in 1982, but when their plans failed, were sold to Japan as gapfillers in the BS broadcasting satellite program under the designation BS 2x (1989) and BS 3h (1990).
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Family
- Atlas
- Variant
- I
- Provider
- General Dynamics
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 36B
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.4706, -80.5422