Communications
INTELSAT 4-F3
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 20, 1971 at 01:10 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- INTELSAT IV F3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,016 km
- Periapsis
- 35,920 km
- Inclination
- 6.41°
- Orbital period
- 1445.39 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-116A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5709
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Intelsat- Radar cross-section
- 2.3549 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational