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JCSAT 3
Atlas IIAS · Communications
1995Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Foreseeing the growth of the communications business, Japan Satellite Systems, Inc., (JSAT) of Tokyo signed a contract in October 1993 for a Hughes HS-601 satellite from Hughes Space and Communications International, Inc. The satellite, JCSAT-3, was designed to relay voice, data, and television signals via Ku-band to eastern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and India; and via C-band to eastern and southern Asia and Hawaii.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Lockheed Martin
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 36B
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2