Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Arianespace
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
GTO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
French Guiana
Date
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:58:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4481 ever
Failure
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.
Mission
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.