Communications
TELSTAR 303
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Telstar 303 is a U.S. communications satellite launched from Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-51-G on 17 June 1985. Owned by AT&T and operated by Loral Skynet Hughes Communications, it was one of three Telstar 3 satellites, preceded by Telstar 301 in 1983 and Telstar 302 in 1984.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 17, 1985 at 11:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-51-G
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,909 km
- Periapsis
- 35,889 km
- Inclination
- 14.2°
- Orbital period
- 1441.86 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 653.12 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-048D
- NORAD catalog №
- 15826
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 5.1182 m²
- Status
- active
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