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FailureBS-3H · General Dynamics
Launch time (NET)
Thursday, Apr 18, 1991, 23:30 UTC
Launch window
Thursday, Apr 18, 1991, 23:30 UTC – Thursday, Apr 18, 1991, 23:30 UTC
Provider
General Dynamics
Rocket
Launch pad
Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA · Open map
Status
Failure
Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.
Mission
BS-3H
Type
Communications
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).
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