Westar 6 suffered a failure on its PAM-D kick stage and was left on a wrong orbit, so it was brought back to earth by the crew of STS-51A and was sold to Asiasat and relaunched in 1990 by a Chang Zheng 3 rocket from Xichang as Asiasat 1
MegaUltraGalactic79 2 years ago
Didn't the Crew of STS-51A capture the satellites
MrBennetzen 4 years ago
4th to comment, excellent
MegaUltraGalactic79 5 years ago
3rd to comment, thanks
Shuttlesource 5 years ago
2nd to comment!
nice vid
PinkFloyd2 5 years ago
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discovery995 5 years ago
Westar 6 suffered a failure on its PAM-D kick stage and was left on a wrong orbit, so it was brought back to earth by the crew of STS-51A and was sold to Asiasat and relaunched in 1990 by a Chang Zheng 3 rocket from Xichang as Asiasat 1
MegaUltraGalactic79 2 years ago
Didn't the Crew of STS-51A capture the satellites
MrBennetzen 4 years ago
4th to comment, excellent
MegaUltraGalactic79 5 years ago
3rd to comment, thanks
Shuttlesource 5 years ago
2nd to comment!
nice vid
PinkFloyd2 5 years ago
1st to comment!
discovery995 5 years ago