NASDA N-2 from Tanegashima launched CS-2b (Sakura 2b), Japan’s second domestic communications satellite of the CS-2 series, providing Ka-band domestic telecom services from geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 670 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 8 N-2 flights
- Date and time
- 5 August 1983, 20:29 UTC
- Rocket
- N-2
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-081
- Launches in 1983
- 82nd of 129
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