BS-3H

Launch Failure

Launch Details

Date: 18 Apr 1991, 11:30 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas I (Atlas)

Provider: General Dynamics

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

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

Mission Description

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).