Satellite · NORAD 3947 · COSPAR 1969-045A
INTELSAT 3-F4
- Operator Intelsat
- Constellation Intelsat fleet
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
3.52°
Period
1.1 d
1,599.2 min
Perigee
38,822km
Apogee
39,021km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 14 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 2.5 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Intelsat fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- INTELSAT 3-F4Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- Intelsat
- SATCAT owner code
- ITSO · Intelsat
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 22 May 1969
- COSPAR launch id
- 1969-045
Objects from the same launch · 1
- DELTA 1 R/B(2)5976Rocket bodyDecayed
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 3947
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1969-045A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJYDTERSCSD23Z2A7MY
- Canonical slug
- intelsat-3-f4-3947
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.