Payload
UFO 8 (USA 138)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 16, 1998 at 09:32 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas II →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- UHF F/O F8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,804 km
- Periapsis
- 35,770 km
- Inclination
- 11.13°
- Orbital period
- 1436.12 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- US Navy
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Satellite Systems
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 3,206 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,545 kg
- Design lifetime
- 4 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-016A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25258
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 14.1421 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational