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class="infobox-data">2004-011A <sup id="cite_ref-nasagsfc-nssdcasuperbird6_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nasagsfc-nssdcasuperbird6-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Satellite_Catalog_Number" title="Satellite Catalog Number">SATCAT <abbr title="number">no.</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">28218</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040626165901/http://www.superbird.co.jp/english/superbird/index_a2.html">Archived official page</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mission duration</th><td class="infobox-data">13 years (planned)<br />Failed on orbit (achieved)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Spacecraft properties</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spacecraft</th><td class="infobox-data">Superbird-6</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spacecraft type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/JSAT_(satellite_constellation)" title="JSAT (satellite constellation)">Superbird</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Satellite_bus" title="Satellite bus">Bus</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Boeing_601" title="Boeing 601">BSS-601</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Manufacturer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Boeing_Satellite_Development_Center" title="Boeing Satellite Development Center">Boeing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launch mass</th><td class="infobox-data">3,100 kg (6,800 lb)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Service_life#BOL_and_EOL" title="Service life">BOL mass</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1,528 kg (3,369 lb)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dry mass</th><td class="infobox-data">1,477 kg (3,256 lb)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dimensions</th><td class="infobox-data">26.2 m × 7.5 m × 4.5 m (86 ft × 25 ft × 15 ft) with <a href="/wiki/Solar_panels_on_spacecraft" title="Solar panels on spacecraft">solar panels</a> and antennas deployed</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Power</th><td class="infobox-data">4378 <a href="/wiki/Watt" title="Watt">watts</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Start of mission</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launch date</th><td class="infobox-data">16 April 2004, 00:45:00 <a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a><sup id="cite_ref-nasagsfc-nssdcasuperbird6orbit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nasagsfc-nssdcasuperbird6orbit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rocket</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atlas_II" title="Atlas II">Atlas IIAS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launch site</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Space_Force_Station" title="Cape Canaveral Space Force Station">Cape Canaveral</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Launch_Complex_36" title="Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36">LC-36B</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Contractor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/International_Launch_Services" title="International Launch Services">International Launch Services</a> (ILS)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Entered service</th><td class="infobox-data">Never in service</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">End of mission</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Disposal</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Graveyard_orbit" title="Graveyard orbit">Graveyard orbit</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last contact</th><td class="infobox-data">Failed on orbit</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Orbital parameters</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference system</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Geocentric_orbit" title="Geocentric orbit">Geocentric orbit</a><sup id="cite_ref-N2YO_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N2YO-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Regime</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Geostationary_orbit" title="Geostationary orbit">Geostationary orbit</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Longitude</th><td class="infobox-data">158° East</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Transponders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Band</th><td class="infobox-data">23 <a href="/wiki/Ku_band" title="Ku band">Ku-band</a> 36 MHz<br />4 <a href="/wiki/Ka_band" title="Ka band">Ka-band</a> 100 MHz <sup id="cite_ref-ssc-superbird620040626_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssc-superbird620040626-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Bandwidth</th><td class="infobox-data">1228 <a href="/wiki/Hertz" title="Hertz">MHz</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coverage area</th><td class="infobox-data">Japan, <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">TWTA power</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ku_band" title="Ku band">Ku-band</a>: 85 watts<br /><a href="/wiki/Ka_band" title="Ka band">Ka-band</a>: 70 watts <sup id="cite_ref-ssc-superbird620040626_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssc-superbird620040626-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><div class="" style="width:100%; text-align:center; border-top:1px #aaa solid"><a href="/wiki/JSAT_(satellite_constellation)" title="JSAT (satellite constellation)">Superbird constellation</a></div><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/Superbird-D" class="mw-redirect" title="Superbird-D">Superbird-D</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/Superbird-C2" title="Superbird-C2">Superbird-C2</a> →</div></div><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Superbird-A2</b>, known as <b>Superbird-6</b> before launch, was a <a href="/wiki/Geostationary_orbit" title="Geostationary orbit">geostationary</a> <a href="/wiki/Communications_satellite" title="Communications satellite">communications satellite</a> ordered and operated by <a href="/wiki/SKY_Perfect_JSAT" title="SKY Perfect JSAT">Space Communications Corporation</a> (SCC) that was designed and manufactured by <a href="/wiki/Hughes_Space_and_Communications_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Hughes Space and Communications Company">Hughes</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Boeing_Satellite_Development_Center" title="Boeing Satellite Development Center">Boeing</a>) on the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_601" title="Boeing 601">BSS-601</a> <a href="/wiki/Satellite_bus" title="Satellite bus">satellite bus</a>. It had a mixed <a href="/wiki/Ku_band" title="Ku band">Ku-band</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ka_band" title="Ka band">Ka-band</a> payload and was expected replace <a href="/wiki/Superbird-A" title="Superbird-A">Superbird-A</a> at the position at 158° East longitude. It was expected to provided television signals and business communications services throughout Japan, <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gsp-superbird6_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gsp-superbird6-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ssc-superbird620040626_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssc-superbird620040626-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While the launch was within the margins specified by the satellite manufacturer, the trajectory analysis had been inexact and the satellite suffered severe life and power degradation. It tried to use a <a href="/wiki/Supersynchronous_orbit" title="Supersynchronous orbit">supersynchronous</a> transfer strategy, but Boeing had failed to take into consideration the effect of the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>. Thus, the lowest part of the orbit dropped too fast and much propellant had to be spent on a fast transit to geosynchronous orbit. Additionally, the solar panels suffered damage from the extreme contact with the atmosphere. Given the damage to the spacecraft, it was never put into service.<sup id="cite_ref-gsp-superbird6_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gsp-superbird6-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-globalsecurity-japansuperbird_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globalsecurity-japansuperbird-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Satellite_description">Satellite description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Superbird-A2&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Satellite description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The spacecraft was designed and manufactured by Boeing Satellite Development Center on the BSS-601 satellite bus. It had a launch mass of 3,100 kg (6,800 lb), a <a href="/wiki/Service_life#BOL_and_EOL" title="Service life">beginning of life</a> mass of 1,528 kg (3,369 lb) and an end of life mass of 1,477 kg (3,256 lb). It was designed for a 13-year life. When stowed for launch, it measured 4.5 m × 3.5 m × 3.5 m (15 ft × 11 ft × 11 ft). It had two wings with four <a href="/wiki/Solar_panels_on_spacecraft" title="Solar panels on spacecraft">solar panels</a> each, that generated 4378 watts at the end of its design life. When fully deployed, the solar panels spanned 26.2 m (86 ft), with its antennas in fully extended configuration it was 7.5 m (25 ft) wide.<sup id="cite_ref-gsp-superbird6_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gsp-superbird6-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It had a 29-cell <a href="/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93hydrogen_battery" title="Nickel–hydrogen battery">NiH<sub>2</sub> battery</a> with a power charge of 200 <a href="/wiki/Ampere_hour" class="mw-redirect" title="Ampere hour">Ah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Its propulsion system was composed of a <a href="/wiki/Liquid_apogee_engine" title="Liquid apogee engine">liquid apogee engine</a> (LAE) with a thrust of 445 N (100 lb<sub>f</sub>). It also used had 12 22 N (4.9 lb<sub>f</sub>) <a href="/wiki/Bipropellant_rocket" class="mw-redirect" title="Bipropellant rocket">bipropellant</a> <a href="/wiki/Thrusters_(spacecraft)" title="Thrusters (spacecraft)">thrusters</a> for <a href="/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping" title="Orbital station-keeping">station keeping</a> and <a href="/wiki/Attitude_dynamics_and_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Attitude dynamics and control">attitude control</a>. It included enough propellant for <a href="/wiki/Geostationary_transfer_orbit" title="Geostationary transfer orbit">orbit circularization</a> and 13 years of operation.<sup id="cite_ref-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It had a dual <a href="/wiki/Ku_band" title="Ku band">Ku-band</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ka_band" title="Ka band">Ka-band</a> payload. The Ku-band section had its 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) dual-grid shaped antenna on the West side. It had twenty three <a href="/wiki/Transponder_(satellite_communications)" title="Transponder (satellite communications)">transponders</a> powered by <a href="/wiki/Traveling-wave_tube#Traveling-wave-tube_amplifier" title="Traveling-wave tube">Traveling-wave tube#Traveling-wave-tube amplifier</a> (TWTA) with and output power of 85 watts. It had a wide beam <a href="/wiki/Footprint_(satellite)" title="Footprint (satellite)">footprint</a> that covered Japan, South Asia, East Asia, and Hawaii.<sup id="cite_ref-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ssc-superbird620040626_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssc-superbird620040626-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gsp-superbird6_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gsp-superbird6-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Its Ka-band section had a 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) single-grid shaped antenna on the East side for the wide beam, and a <a href="/wiki/Nadir" title="Nadir">nadir</a> 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) shaped surface antenna for the steerable beam. It had four 100 MHz transponders powered by TWTA with and output power of 70 Watts. The wide beam covered Japan, South Asia, East Asia, and Hawaii, while the steerable beam could be focus on any zone that had line-of-sight to the satellite.<sup id="cite_ref-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boeingdefenseandspace-superbird6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ssc-superbird620040626_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssc-superbird620040626-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gsp-superbird6_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gsp-superbird6-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Superbird-A2&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/SKY_Perfect_JSAT" title="SKY Perfect JSAT">Space Communications Corporation</a> (SCC) was founded in 1985, the same year as the original companies that later formed <a href="/wiki/JSAT_Corporation" title="JSAT Corporation">JSAT</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-skyperfectjsat-history20160826_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skyperfectjsat-history20160826-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2001, SCC ordered its third <a href="/wiki/Boeing_601" title="Boeing 601">BSS-601</a> based spacecraft, <b>Superbird-6</b>. It was to use the 158° East position and offer a Japan wide beam service in Ku-band and Ka-band, plus steerable Ka-band spot beams. It was expected for a fall of 2003 launch aboard an <a href="/wiki/Atlas_II" title="Atlas II">Atlas IIAS</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gsp-superbird6_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gsp-superbird6-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-globalsecurity-japansuperbird_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globalsecurity-japansuperbird-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was decided to launch Superbird-6 into a 2895 minutes period <a href="/wiki/Supersynchronous_orbit" title="Supersynchronous orbit">supersynchronous orbit</a> with an apogee of 120,679 km, a perigee of 1138 km and a 25.5° inclination. This extreme perigee and a six-maneuvers <a href="/wiki/Orbital_maneuver" title="Orbital maneuver">circularization</a> program would reduce the propellant expenditure to its final position in <a href="/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit" title="Geosynchronous orbit">geosynchronous orbit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gsp-superbird6_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gsp-superbird6-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-globalsecurity-japansuperbird_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globalsecurity-japansuperbird-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was launched on 16 April 2004 by an Atlas IIAS that injected in the <a href="/wiki/Supersynchronous_orbit" title="Supersynchronous orbit">supersynchronous orbit</a> specified by the satellite manufacturer, at which point it was named <b>Superbird-A2</b>. But the orbit analysis had failed to take into consideration the influence of the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> at such high apogees and the perigee started to drop dangerously fast. Most of its propellant had to be spent and the solar panels suffered damage that reduced the power production. The satellite can not enter service as planned in July 2004. One of two main fuel tanks on the spacecraft lost pressure on 28 November 2004. The satellite was never commissioned into regular service.<sup id="cite_ref-gsp-superbird6_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gsp-superbird6-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-globalsecurity-japansuperbird_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globalsecurity-japansuperbird-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Superbird-A2&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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