General Dynamics Atlas I BS-3H

Name: General Dynamics Atlas I BS-3H
Start: 1991-04-18T23:30:00.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 36B

Atlas I

Status

Failure

Date

18 APR 1991

23:30

Launch Provider

General Dynamics

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 36B

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Overview

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).

Rocket

Atlas I

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

The Atlas I was a US expendable launch system manufactured by General Dynamics in the 1990s to launch a variety of satellites.

Height

43.9 m

Diameter

3.05 m

Launch Mass

164 T

Thrust

1,939 kN