General Dynamics

BS-3H

Atlas I

FAILURE
Failure

Thursday, April 18, 1991 · 23:30 UTC

Mission

/01

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).

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Atlas I

Variant: I

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 36B

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

28.471° N, 80.542° W

38

Pad Launches

446

Location Launches

2

Agency Launches

30

Orbital This Year

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