United States Air Force

INTELSAT III F-5

Thor Delta M

FAILURE
Failure

Saturday, July 26, 1969 · 02:06 UTC

Mission

/01

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.

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Thor Delta M

Variant: Delta M

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 17A

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

28.447° N, 80.565° W

41

Pad Launches

238

Location Launches

499

Agency Launches

76

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