BSAT-2b
BSAT-2b
Japanese communications satellite
BSAT-2b, was a geostationary communications satellite ordered by B-SAT which was designed and manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation on the STAR-1 platform. It was designed to be stationed on the 110° East orbital slot along its companion BSAT-2a where it would provide redundant high definition direct television broadcasting across Japan.[3][4]
But the Ariane 5G rocket had an anomaly during its July 12, 2001 launch. It left BSAT-2b stranded in an orbit too low for its propulsion system to compensate and the spacecraft was written off.[5][6][1] BSAT ordered BSAT-2c immediately to replace it.[7] It decayed and burned in the atmosphere on January 28, 2014.[1][8]