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General Dynamics • Atlas I • Launch Complex 36B (FL)

General Dynamics • Atlas I • LC-36B
Two Ku-band DTH satellites were originally ordered by STC in 1982, but when their plans failed, were sold to Japan as gapfillers in the BS broadcasting satellite program under the designation BS 2x (1989) and BS 3h (1990).
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Two Ku-band DTH satellites were originally ordered by STC in 1982, but when their plans failed, were sold to Japan as gapfillers in the BS broadcasting satellite program under the designation BS 2x (1989) and BS 3h (1990).
The Atlas I was a US expendable launch system manufactured by General Dynamics in the 1990s to launch a variety of satellites.
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