Intelsat III F-1, a TRW commercial communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium, lost when its Thor Delta M (maiden Delta M flight) suffered a control-system failure after liftoff from Cape Canaveral LC-17A and was destroyed by range safety.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 12 Thor Delta M flights
- Date and time
- 19 September 1968, 00:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta M
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1968
- 86th of 128