1995 · China Aerospace Corporation
Apstar 2
failureLong March 2E | Apstar 2
The APStar 2 satellite was designed to serve two-thirds of the world's population - from China, Japan, and Vietnam on the east; to Russia, Eastern Europe, and India on the west; and to Australia on the south. APT Satellite Company, Ltd., of Hong Kong, ordered the high-power Hughes HS 601 spacecraft model in November 1993, as well as satellite control facility equipment and operator training.
Overview
- Date / time
- January 25, 1995 at 10:40 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- Mission
- Apstar 2
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Orbit