Intelsat 506 (Intelsat V F-6), a commercial geostationary communications satellite for Intelsat. The final Atlas-Centaur SLV-3D flight from Cape Canaveral LC-36A delivered the Ford Aerospace craft with C- and Ku-band capacity for international telephony and TV.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 32nd
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 19 May 1983, 22:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-047
- Launches in 1983
- 48th of 129
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