Intelsat V F-3, an international commercial communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR from Cape Canaveral LC-36A delivered the craft to geosynchronous orbit for global telephony and TV relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 29th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1981, 23:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1981-119
- Launches in 1981
- 121st of 126
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