Failure reason: Upper stage under-performance left payloads in MEO. Artemis was able to climb to GEO over time with operational propellant, BSAT-2b couldn't compensate and was abandoned.

Artemis is a geostationary earth orbit satellite for a ESA data relay satellite, it operates at the 21.5 degrees East. BSAT-2b is a geostationary, commercial communications satellite used for direct television broadcasting across Japan.

Mission type: Communications · Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Rocket: Ariane 5 G · Provider: Arianespace