Launched along Artemis aboard an Ariane 5G, it was left on an unusable orbit and that it couldn't compensate for.
The electric propulsion Artemis, could use its higher efficiency ion drives, to reach operational orbit.
[5] The current fleet of Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation as of August 2020 is composed of five spacecraft.
[9] It was manufactured by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems based on the A2100A platform design, with a communications payload containing 12 Ku-band channels, eight of which operate at one time.
[1] B-SAT awarded Lockheed Martin the contract to build its next geostationary telecommunications satellite, BSAT-3b, which was launched by Arianespace aboard an Ariane 5 ECA (along with the Eutelsat W3B) on 28 October 2010.
[11][12][13] BSAT-3c, also known as JCSAT-110R, is a satellite co-owned with SKY Perfect JSAT with each operator owning a separate payload.
[15] The second satellite of the fourth generation BSAT was built by Maxar Technologies on its SSL 1300 platform.