Space AtlasGALAXY 8 (G-8)
NORAD 25086 · Payload · In orbit since 1997
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1997-12-08 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 3,558 kg
- Size
- 4 × 3.2 m · 26.2 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,916 × 35,975 km
- Inclination
- 14.1°
- Period
- 1443.9 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.