Status
Failure
JCSat-11
Wed Sep 05, 2007 22:43 UTC
The first stage functioned correctly, but an anomaly of the second stage caused the engines to stop at H0+135". The launcher continued its flight on a ballistic trajectory until an altitude of 76km and then crashed at H0+330" at approximately 40km in the south-west of Dzhezkazgan, in the center of Kazakhstan.
Rocket
Mission Details
JCSat-11
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by JSAT Corporation of Japan to build its next geostationary telecommunications satellite, designated JCSAT-10, which will provide communications services throughout Japan and Asia following its scheduled launch in 2006. Financial terms were not disclosed. JCSAT-10 will be a hybrid satellite, equipped with Ku-band high-power transponders and C-band medium-power transponders, and will be located at 128 degrees East longitude. The spacecraft is based on the award-winning A2100AXS platform manufactured by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS), Newtown, Pa. After becoming operational, the satellite is referred by the designator JCSat 3A.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by JSAT Corporation (JSAT) of Japan in October 2005 to build its next geostationary telecommunications satellite, designated JCSAT-11. JCSAT-11 was to be reserved entirely in orbit as a backup satellite for other JCSAT satellites following its scheduled launch in 2007. Financial terms were not disclosed. JCSAT-11 was lost in a launch failure.