Intelsat III F-2, a TRW commercial communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium, launched on a Thor Delta M from Cape Canaveral LC-17A into geosynchronous orbit for global telephone and television relay after Intelsat III F-1 failed.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 294 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 12 Thor Delta M flights
- Date and time
- 19 December 1968, 00:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta M
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1968-116
- Launches in 1968
- 125th of 128
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