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United States Air Force
Thor Delta M | INTELSAT III F-5
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
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.
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