Payload / Mission
INTELSAT III F-1
Type
Communications
Orbit
Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)
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.
No media yet. Livestreams usually appear shortly before launch.