Space AtlasINTELSAT 8 (IS-8)
NORAD 25522 · Payload · In orbit since 1998
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1998-11-04 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 3,800 kg
- Size
- 6.1 × 2.4 m · 26 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,036 × 38,515 km
- Inclination
- 9.2°
- Period
- 1512.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0284
- 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.