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| An Intelsat II launch cover from "SpaceCraft", postmarked at Cape Canaveral with a machine cancel on January 11, 1967, signed by Carl A. Swanson, the cover’s producer. |
Intelsat II F-2, also known as Lani Bird, was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. It was launched atop a Delta E1 rocket flying from Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch took place at 10:55:00 on January 11, 1967, with the spacecraft entering a geosynchronous transfer orbit. It fired an SVM-1 apogee motor to place itself into its operational geostationary orbit, arriving on-station at 174° East on February 4, 1967. The satellite achieved around two years of operation at that slot before failing in 1969.
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Intelsat II F-2)
