Payload
ESSA 8 (TOS-F)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
ESSA 8 (TOS-F) is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 15, 1968 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 15, 1968 at 05:21 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta N →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ESSA 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,463 km
- Periapsis
- 1,414 km
- Inclination
- 101.7°
- Orbital period
- 114.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 130.82 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-114A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3615
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.7705 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational