Carried Sakura 3A (CS-3A), a Japanese domestic communications satellite for NASDA, into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Tanegashima on an H-I rocket.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 9 H-I flights
- Date and time
- 19 February 1988, 10:05 UTC
- Rocket
- H-I
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-012
- Launches in 1988
- 13th of 121
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