CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0672
INTELSAT 3-F5
INTELSAT 3-F5 (NORAD 4051) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 October 1988, after 19 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4051
International designator
1969-064A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Intelsat
Launched
26 Jul 1969Cape Canaveral
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Oct 1988UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
19 years, 2 months7,020 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
30.2°N to 30.2°SFinal inclination 30.2°
Mass
135 kg
Operator
Built by
TRW
Bus
INTELSAT 3
Programme
Int3
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 30.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 30.2°N and 30.2°S.
Life in orbit
19 years, 2 monthsINTELSAT 3-F5’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 14 Oct 1988
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1969-064
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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