Payload
GALAXY 8 (G-8)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 8, 1997 at 11:52 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIAS →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Galaxy 8i
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,983 km
- Periapsis
- 35,914 km
- Inclination
- 14.05°
- Orbital period
- 1444.39 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-078A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25086
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 24.9519 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational