Communications
INMARSAT 3-F3
Backup / standbyCommunicationsGEONORAD 24674
INMARSAT 3-F3 is a INMARSAT, Ltd. communications satellite, launched on December 18, 1996 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 18, 1996 at 01:57 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- INMARSAT III F-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,883 km
- Periapsis
- 35,854 km
- Inclination
- 10.31°
- Orbital period
- 1440.29 min
- Orbit data fetched
- October 14, 2026 at 10:43 AM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- INMARSAT, Ltd.
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 1,090.19 kg
- Dry mass
- 860 kg
- Design lifetime
- 13 years
- Dimensions
- 1.8 × 1.7 × 1.7 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-070A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24674
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- Isle of Man
- Radar cross-section
- 28.1837 m²
- Status
- Backup / standby