Communications
INTELSAT 3-F6
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 15, 1970 at 12:16 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta M →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- INTELSAT III F-6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,147 km
- Periapsis
- 36,057 km
- Inclination
- 1.08°
- Orbital period
- 1452.23 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-003A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4297
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Intelsat- Radar cross-section
- 4.4668 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational