1969 · United States Air Force
INTELSAT III F-3
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The Intelsat 3 spacecraft were used to relay commercial global telecommunications including live TV. Three of the 8 satellites in the series (F1, F5, F8) were unusable due to launch vehicle failures, and most of the remainder did not achieve their desired lifetimes.
Overview
- Date / time
- February 6, 1969 at 12:39 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- INTELSAT III F-3
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Orbit