CS-2a (Sakura 2a), Japan's second-generation domestic communications satellite for NASDA. An N-2 from Tanegashima placed the ~350 kg craft into GEO at 132°E for Ka-band public, emergency, and remote-island telecommunications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 670 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 8 N-2 flights
- Date and time
- 4 February 1983, 08:37 UTC
- Rocket
- N-2
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-006
- Launches in 1983
- 7th of 129
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