MBSAT

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 13 Mar 2004, 05:40 am UTC

Rocket: Atlas IIIA (Atlas)

Provider: Lockheed Martin

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

MBSat 1 (Mobile Broadcasting Satellite) or Hanbyul is a mobile broadcasting satellite jointly built for the Japanese Mobile Broacasting Corp. and the South Korean SK Telecom.