LAUNCH CENTER
Failure
Thu Apr 18 1991
General Dynamics
BS-3H
Launch Failure
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW
Location
No Recovery Specified
Type
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Rocket Details
Name:
Atlas IDescription:
The Atlas I was a US expendable launch system manufactured by General Dynamics in the 1990s to launch a variety of satellites.
MISSION OVERVIEW
- Type: Communications
- 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).
COMPLEX OVERVIEW
Location
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Pad
Launch Complex 36B