NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Failure

Intelsat 603

Launch Time
Wed Mar 14, 1990 11:52 UTC

Second stage failed to separate from kick motor, upper stage jettison successfully commanded to save payload.

Rocket

Commercial Titan III
Image Credit: NASA
Martin Marietta
Status: Retired
Price: $136.6 million
Liftoff Thrust: 12,454 kN
Payload to LEO: 14,515 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 47.0 m

Mission Details

Intelsat 603

Intelsat 603 or IS-603, previously named Intelsat VI F-3, is a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Following the launch failure, Intelsat commissioned NASA to launch a replacement perigee motor to raise the satellite's orbit. During its maiden flight, STS-49, in 1992 Space Shuttle Endeavour rendezvoused with and captured Intelsat 603, and astronauts attached a new Orbus-21S to the satellite.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 4,215.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

1990

22nd orbital launch attempt

Titan III

154th mission
2nd mission of 1990
13th failed mission