Launch data:
| Designation
|
14692
/ 84011D
|
|
Launch
date
| 03
Feb 1984 - 13:00 UT |
| Launch site | KSC, LC-39A |
| Launch vehicle | Shuttle STS 11 |
| Mission
| Telecommunications
|
| Geostationary orbit: |
Launched on a bad orbit (faulty perigee motor) it was retrieved on 16 Nov 1984
by
STS 19.
This retrieval was financed by the insurance companies, despite the operator's
refusal to retrieve it and asked for the insurance money (then used to order
Palapa B2P).
Some time later the operator changed it's mind and relaunched it as
Palapa B2R.
Spacecraft data:
| Prime contractor | |
| Platform | Hughes HS-376 |
| Operator | |
| Mass at launch | kg |
| Dry Mass | kg |
| Basic shape | |
| Dimension (m) | |
| Solar array | |
| Stabilization | |
| DC power | |
| Design lifetime | |
Decay:
| Cause: | Retrieved by STS 19 |
| Recovered date: | 16 Nov 1984 |
| Lifetime: | |
Ref: #1, #7(JR615), #15 - update: 10.02.10