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Class: Communications. Nation: Japan. Agency: TSCJ(Sakura). To continue communications services provided by the communications satellite 2 (CS-2). To meet increasing and diversifying demands for communications. To develop technologies for communications satellites. Launch vehicle H18F. Launching organization NASDA.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 1,100 kg.
CS-3 Chronology
19 February 1988
Sakura 3A Program: CS. Launch Site: Tanegashima . Launch Vehicle: H-1. Mass: 1,100 kg. Perigee: 35,787 km. Apogee: 35,788 km. Inclination: 0.0 deg. Stationed at 132 deg E. CS-3A (Sakura 3-A). To continue communications services provided by the communications satellite 2 (CS-2). To meet increasing and diversifying demands for communications. To develop technologies for communications satellites. Launch vehicle H18F. Launchin g organization NASDA. Launch time 1005 GMT.
16 September 1988
Sakura 3B Program: CS. Launch Site: Tanegashima . Launch Vehicle: H-1. Mass: 1,100 kg. Perigee: 35,787 km. Apogee: 35,790 km. Inclination: 0.0 deg. Telephone communications; 136 deg E. CS-3B (Sakura 3-B). To continue communications services provided by the communications satellite 2 (CS-2). To meet increasing and diversifying demands for communications; to develop technologies for communications satellites. Launch vehicle H-I (H19F). La unching organization NASDA. Launch time 0959 GMT.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
- 279 - McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html
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