BS-2a (Yuri 2a), a Japanese direct-broadcast communications satellite for NHK, launched on an N-II from Tanegashima into geostationary orbit to provide national television broadcasting services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 693 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 8 N-2 flights
- Date and time
- 23 January 1984, 07:58 UTC
- Rocket
- N-2
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1984-005
- Launches in 1984
- 5th of 129
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