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Atlas I
Launched 1991-04-18 23:30 UTCLaunch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
No cause has been given yet.
Launch failure
Target: Geostationary Orbit
Atlas I lifted off with BS-3H, but the launch failed.
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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).
Launches
11
Successful
9
82%
Upcoming
0
scheduled
Height
43.9m
Diameter
3m
To low Earth orbit
5,900kg
Liftoff thrust
1,939kN
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