Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Orion 3 was an American spacecraft which was intended for use by Loral Space & Communications as a geostationary communications satellite. It was to have been positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 139° East from where it was to have provided communications services to Asia and Oceania. Due to a malfunction during launch it was instead delivered to a useless low Earth orbit.Orion 3 was constructed by Hughes Space and Communications based around a HS-601HP satellite bus.