In 2000 the company was renamed as JSAT Corporation and was listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
[5] JSAT would handle the satellite side of business and NTT DoCoMo would operate the payload.
[11] In 2000, the company name was changed to JSAT Corporation, and was listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
[1][17] N-STAR c was ordered by NTT DoCoMo from Lockheed Martin and Orbital Sciences Corporation.
Orbital would supply the spacecraft and procure launch services and Lockheed would deliver the payload an act as main contractor.
[18] In April 2000, JSAT ordered JCSAT-8 from Boeing Satellite Development Center (which had acquired the HS-601 business from Hughes), to replace JCSAT-2 at the 154° East slot.
[19] N-SAT-110 was successfully launched October 6 by an Ariane 42L, at which point it was renamed JCSAT 110 and Superbird-D.[16][20] Horizons Satellite was originally an equal share joint venture with PanAmSat.
[21] Horizons-1 was successfully launched on October 1, 2003 aboard a Zenit-3SL rocket from the Ocean Odyssey platform in the Pacific.
[22] JSAT switched satellite suppliers again and on April 30, 2003 awarded an order for JCSAT-9 to Lockheed Martin and its A2100AXS platform.
It would carry 20 Ku band transponders, generate 3.5 kW of power, weight around 2.3 t (2.5 tons) and was expected to be launched in 2007.
A damaged pyro firing cable on the interstage truss prevented the second stage from controlling its direction, and the rocket and its payload crashed into the Kazakhstan steppes.
[34] Being lucky in misfortune, JCSAT-11 was simply an on-orbit backup and thus it had no operational impact on the fleet.
[36] In March 2008, SCC became a wholly owned subsidiary of SKY Perfect JSAT Group.
[38] This consolidated the Superbird fleet into JSAT and created the fifth satellite operator in the world at the time.