INTELSAT III F-8

Mission

INTELSAT III F-8

Type: Communications

The Intelsat 3 spacecraft were used to relay commercial global telecommunications including live TV. Three of the 8 satellites in the series (F1, F5, F8) were unusable due to launch vehicle failures, and most of the remainder did not achieve their desired lifetimes.

Location

Space Launch Complex 17A

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

847 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.