asiastar is an american communications satellite which was operated by 1worldspace. it was constructed by alcatel space and matra marconi space based on the eurostar e2000+ bus design. launch occurred on 21 march 2000, at 23:28 gmt. the launch was contracted by arianespace, and used an ariane 5g carrier rocket flying from ela-3 at the guiana space centre. the insat-3b satellite was launched on the same rocket.