INTELSAT III F-2

Overview

Destination: Geostationary Orbit
Mission: Communications

Geostationary Orbit Space Launch Complex 17A Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

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.

Thor Delta M

Family: Thor
Configuration: Delta M

American orbital launch vehicle family with Thor first stage and a delta second stage.

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    34.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.44 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    2.44 m
  • Launch Mass
    103 T
  • Thrust
    2140 kN
Family
  • Name
    Thor Delta M
  • Family
    Thor
  • Variant
    Delta M
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Thor Delta M
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $22300000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    355 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    355 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

McDonnell Douglas

McDonnell Douglas

(MDC)

Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type: Commercial

WIKI

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Space Launch Complex 17A


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