SKY Perfect JSAT selected SpaceX’s Starship for launch of its Superbird-9 communications satellite in 2024 to geosynchronous transfer orbit.
This is the first publically-announced commercial launch contract for the upcoming Starship rocket.
Superbird-9 will deliver broadcast and broadband missions in Ku band primarily over Japan and Eastern Asia.
- In 2021, SKY Perfect JSAT signed Airbus for the Superbird-9 satellite.