NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Skynet 4A & JCSAT-2

Launch Time
Mon Jan 01, 1990 00:07 UTC

Rocket

Commercial Titan III
Image Credit: NASA
Martin Marietta
Status: Retired
Price: $136.6 million
Liftoff Thrust: 12,454 kN
Payload to LEO: 14,515 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 47.0 m

Mission Details

Skynet 4A

Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Airbus Defence and Space on behalf of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence, which provide strategic communication services to the three branches of the British Armed Forces and to NATO forces engaged on coalition tasks.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,250.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

JCSAT-2

JCSAT-2 was a geostationary communications satellite designed and manufactured by Hughes (now Boeing) on the HS-393 platform. It was originally ordered by Japan Communications Satellite Company (JCSAT), which later merged into the JSAT Corporation. It had a Ku band payload and operated on the 154°E longitude until it was replaced by JCSAT-2A.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2,280.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

1990

1st orbital launch attempt

Titan III

153rd mission
1st mission of 1990
137th successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission