Communications
INTELSAT 3-F5
DecayedCommunicationsLEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 26, 1969 at 02:06 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta M →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- INTELSAT III F-5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 117 km
- Inclination
- 30.16°
- Orbital period
- 87.29 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-064A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4051
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Intelsat- Radar cross-section
- 3.492 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 14, 1988
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 14, 1988
- Time in service
- 19.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed