Communications
INMARSAT 3-F1
Backup / standbyCommunicationsGEO
INMARSAT 3-F1 is a Isle of Man communications satellite, launched on April 3, 1996 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 3, 1996 at 11:01 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- INMARSAT III F-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,884 km
- Periapsis
- 35,853 km
- Inclination
- 10.59°
- Orbital period
- 1440.3 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Isle of Man
- Launch mass
- 1,090.19 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23839
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- Isle of Man
- Radar cross-section
- 1.1784 m²
- Status
- Backup / standby