Thor Delta M | INTELSAT III F-7

Name: Thor Delta M | INTELSAT III F-7
Start: 1970-04-23T00:46:12Z
Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, 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.

Mission Details

Launch date: April 23, 1970 at 12:46 AM UTC
Launch vehicle: Thor Delta M
Operator: United States Air Force
Launch site: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission type: Communications