The Intelsat VI series of satellites were the 8th generation of geostationary communications satellites for the Intelsat Corporation. Designed and built...

120.07°W / 0; -120.07 Intelsat 603 or IS-603, previously named Intelsat VI F-3, is a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in 1990, it...

The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite, Intelsat 603, which failed to leave Low Earth orbit two years before...

Akers conducted the EVA to hand-capture and repair a non-functional Intelsat VI-F3 satellite. As of 2021[update] it was the only three-person EVA. The...

respectively). On its first mission, it captured and redeployed the stranded Intelsat VI communications satellite. The first African-American woman astronaut...

55°W / 0°N 55°W / 0; -55 Intelsat 604, previously named Intelsat VI F-4, was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in 1990, it was...

operated by Intelsat Corporation. Spaceflight portal McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 25 August 2016. "Intelsat Satellite...

Intelsat 601, previously named Intelsat VI F-1, was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat, and later Europe*Star. Launched in 1991, it was the...

spacewalks which resulted in the capture and repair of the stranded Intelsat VI F3 communications satellite. The third spacewalk, which also included...

Intelsat 605, previously named Intelsat VI F-5, was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in 1991, it was the fourth of five Intelsat...

/ 0; -179.36 Intelsat 602, also known as IS-602 and previously named Intelsat VI F-2, is a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in...

(extravehicular activities (EVAs)), an all-time record; even the re-positioning of Intelsat VI on STS-49 in May 1992 required only four. The flight plan allowed for...

a series of spacewalks aimed at capturing and repairing the stranded Intelsat VI satellite.: 1  Multiple spacewalks were conducted to retrieve, repair...

spacewalks which resulted in the capture and repair of the stranded Intelsat VI F3 communications satellite. The third spacewalk, which also included...

Mir Hardware Heritage, p.134. Kallender, Mark. "STS-49, The Rescue Of Intelsat-VI 603". Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved February...

primary goal of that mission was to capture and repair the non-functional Intelsat VI-F3 satellite. The first two attempts failed; Akers joined the third attempt...

scheduled to be flown no later than July 15, 1986, and was to deploy the Intelsat VI-1 and INSAT 1-C communications satellites and carry the Materials Science...

1954), U.S. Air Force (3 flights) STS-49 Endeavour — May 1992 — Pilot — Intelsat VI hand-retrieval and repair STS-59 Endeavour — April 1994 — Pilot — Experiments...

then" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Kallender, Mark. "STS-49, The Rescue Of Intelsat-VI 603". Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 28 February...

Galaxy 19 is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat located at 97° West longitude, serving the North American market. Galaxy 19 replaced Galaxy 25...

possible. In 1990, a commercial expendable launch vehicle stranded an INTELSAT VI communications satellite in low Earth orbit. Before STS-41, NASA was...

the STS-49 crew rendezvoused with and attached a rocket motor to the Intelsat VI F-3 communications satellite to allow it to make an orbital maneuver...

23:40:00 UTC 19:40:00 EDT STS-49 Endeavour 7 08d 21h LC-39B Edwards Intelsat VI hand-retrieval and repair Maiden flight of Endeavour First three-person...

Galaxy 33 is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat located at 133° West longitude, serving the North American market. It was built by Northrop Grumman...

satellite owned by Intelsat. It was built by Space Systems/Loral, as part of its SSL 1300 satellite bus. Galaxy 26 was formerly known as Intelsat Americas 6 and...

organization charged with overseeing the public service obligations of Intelsat, which was privatized in 2001. It incorporates the principle set forth...

Intelsat VA F-15 or Intelsat 515, then named Columbia 515, was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat and which was later sold to Columbia Communications...

Intelsat 701 (also known as IS-701 and Intelsat 7-F1) is a geostationary communication satellite that was built by Space Systems/Loral (SSL). It is located...

active on the C and Ku bands, with 24 transponders for each. Owned by Intelsat, some of the satellite's users include DirecTV's Brazil and Latin America...

Facility retrieval mission STS-49 Endeavour — May 1992 — Commander — Intelsat VI repair mission He was Chief of the Astronaut Office from April 1987 to...