The DS2000 is a geostationary communications satellite bus designed and manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric of Japan. Designed to carry payloads between and , with power requirements of up to 15 kW. It is compatible with Ariane 5, Proton-M, Zenit-3SL, Atlas V, Falcon 9 and H-IIA.
According to Moog-ISP, the DS2000 platform uses its bipropellant thrusters.
List of satellites Satellites using the DS2000 platform.
Satellite Order Launch Launch vehicle Launch mass Launch result DRTS (Kodama) 2002-09-10 H2A 2024 ETS-VIII (Kiku 8) 2006-12-18 H2A 204 MTSAT-2 (Himawari 7) 2000 2006-02-18 H2A 2024 Superbird-7 (Superbird-C2) 2005 2008-08-14 Ariane 5 ECA QZS-1 (Michibiki 1) 2010-09-11 H2A 202 ST-2 2008 2011-05-20 Ariane 5 ECA Himawari 8 2009 2014-10-07 H2A 202 Türksat 4A 2011 2014-02-14 Proton-M/Briz-M Türksat 4B 2011 2015-10-16 Proton-M/Briz-M Himawari 9 2009 2016-11-02 H2A 202 DSN-2 (Kirameki 2) 2017-01-24 H2A 204 QZS-2 (Michibiki 2) 2013 2017-06-01 H2A 202 QZS-3 (Michibiki 3) 2013 2017-08-19 H2A 204 QZS-4 (Michibiki 4) 2013 2017-10-09 H2A 202 Superbird-8 / DSN-1 (Kirameki 1) 2014 2018-04-05 Ariane 5 ECA Es'hail 2 2014 2018-11-15 Falcon 9 Block 5
See also A2100 – Similar satellite bus made by Lockheed Martin Space Systems and popular with Japanese satellite operators NEXTAR - NEC's standard satellite bus SSL 1300 – Another comparable satellite bus used by Japanese satellite operators and made by SSL
References
External links MELCO DS2000 page