An H-I rocket launched Yuri 3B (BS-3b), the second of Japan's second-generation direct-broadcast satellites, from Tanegashima into geostationary transfer orbit for NHK television relay at 110°E.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 9 H-I flights
- Date and time
- 25 August 1991, 08:40 UTC
- Rocket
- H-I
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-060
- Launches in 1991
- 62nd of 91
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