 On January 16, 1998, its fuel was exhausted and it was moved into graveyard orbit.The project was managed and operated by the Swedish Space Corporation, but it was built by Aérospatiale and Saab Ericsson Space, based on the Spacebus 300 series.Some of the TV channels it broadcast was TV4 Sweden, Kanal 5 Sweden, NRK and Filmnet.