Satellite · NORAD 4051 · COSPAR 1969-064A
INTELSAT 3-F5
- Operator Intelsat
- Constellation Intelsat fleet
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
30.16°
Period
87.3 min
87.3 min
Perigee
117km
Apogee
163km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Oct 1988.· Metadata updated 20 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Oct 1988 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 3.5 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Intelsat fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- INTELSAT 3-F5Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- Intelsat
- SATCAT owner code
- ITSO · Intelsat
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 26 Jul 1969
- COSPAR launch id
- 1969-064
Objects from the same launch · 22
- DELTA 1 DEB4053DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4055DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4056DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4057DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4059DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4060DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4085DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4086DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4087DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4088DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4089DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB4090DebrisDecayed
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
- 4051
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1969-064A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJZC5AVGT77N5EC1ZQ2
- Canonical slug
- intelsat-3-f5-4051
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.