CS

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Program: CS. Objective: Communications. Overview: Medium-capacity Communications Satellite for Experimental Purposes, a spin stabilized geostationary communications satellite. Major Events: .

15 December 1977 Sakura Spacecraft: CS-1. Mass: 676 kg. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Vehicle: Delta 2914. More details
Medium-capacity Communications Satellite for Experimental Purposes . Launch vehicle Delta 2914-137. Launch time 0047 UT. Geographical longitude on geostationary orbit: 135 deg E. CS is a spin stabilized geostationary communications satellite. Characteris tics of satellite: Weight approx 340 kg at an early stage in orbit, configuration: cylindrical, height 3.48 m, diameter 2.18m, Expected life more than three years.
04 February 1983 Sakura 2A Spacecraft: CS-2. Mass: 772 kg. Launch Site: Tanegashima . Launch Vehicle: N-2. More details
Business communications. Launch time 0837 GMT. Launching organization NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan). N launch vehicle No. 10(F) (N-II launch vehicle). Osaki launch site, NASDA Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima, Japan. Geostationary position 132 deg E. Estab lishment of domestic satellite telecommunications network mainly for natural disaster, emergency and for remote islands using submillimetre wavelength and microwavelength signals. Development of the technology of communications satellite.
05 August 1983 Sakura 2B Spacecraft: CS-2. Mass: 670 kg. Launch Site: Tanegashima . Launch Vehicle: N-2. More details
CS-2b (Sakura 2b). Launch time 2029 GMT. Launching organization NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan). N launch vehicle flight no. 11 (N-II launch vehicle). Domestic satellite communications; development of communications satellite technolog y.
19 February 1988 Sakura 3A Spacecraft: CS-3. Mass: 1,100 kg. Launch Site: Tanegashima . Launch Vehicle: H-1. More details
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 Spacecraft: CS-3. Mass: 1,100 kg. Launch Site: Tanegashima . Launch Vehicle: H-1. More details
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.

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