NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Yuri-3A

Launch Time
Tue Aug 28, 1990 09:05 UTC

Rocket

H-I UM-129A (9SO)
MHI
Status: Retired
Payload to LEO: 3,200 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,100 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 9
Rocket Height: 42.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.44 m

Mission Details

Yuri-3A

The BS-3 were launched to replace the broadcasting serices of the BS-2, responding to growing broadcasting needs while developing technologies for more advanced broadcasting satellites. They were used for broadcasting and test broadcasting with high-definition television. In 1993, the program was spun off from NASDA to the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation of Tokyo (B-SAT).

The satellites were based on GE Astro's AS-3000 bus and carried a NEC built broadcasting payload consisting of three active high power Ku-band transponders with three spares.

BS-3a finished its programmed operation on 20 April 1998.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,100.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

LA-Y1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Stats

1990

81st orbital launch attempt

H-I

7th mission
2nd mission of 1990
7th successful mission