Intelsat V F-5, an international commercial communications satellite for INTELSAT. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B placed the craft in geosynchronous orbit for global telephone, TV, and data trunking.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 1982, 23:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1982-097
- Launches in 1982
- 103rd of 129
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