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Bsat-4b is a backup for B-SAT's Bsat-4a, which launched in 2017 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
B-SAT ordered Bsat-4b from Maxar Technologies in 2018 with the intention of having the satellite in orbit ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, which were postponed to 2021.
Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) 2 is scheduled to launch 2020-08-15 on an Ariane 5 and that launch will also place the Galaxy 30 and BSAT-4b communications satellites into orbit.
Arianespace planned to resume Ariane 5 launches in late July 2020 with satellites for Intelsat and B-SAT.
BSAT ordered BSAT-4b from SSL to provide additional capacity and backup for BSAT-4a ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
SSL lost a contract with Israeli satellite operator Spacecom to build the Amos-8 satellite, leaving SSL with one new satellite order 2018, BSAT-4B for Japanese operator BSAT.
SSL won two of the six commercial GEO tenders 2018: BSAT-4b and Amos-8.
Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced in March that it had been chosen to build the BSAT-4b satellite for Japan-based BSAT and the Amos-8 satellite for Israel-based Spacecom.
SSL won the BSAT-4b and Amos-8 GEO satellite contracts for Japanese operator BSAT and Israeli operator Spacecom, respectively.