Japan's BS-2b (Yuri-2b) direct-broadcast communications satellite, launched on an N-2 from Tanegashima into GTO. Built on the AS-3000 bus for NASDA, it provided Ku-band TV coverage over Japan as a replacement for the failed BS-2a.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 693 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 8 N-2 flights
- Date and time
- 12 February 1986, 07:55 UTC
- Rocket
- N-2
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-016
- Launches in 1986
- 17th of 110
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