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Thor Delta M | INTELSAT III F-5

INTELSAT III F-5

Launch Failure

Launch Details

Date: 26 July 1969, 02:06 am UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta M (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

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.