Payload
FLTSATCOM 8 (USA 46)
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FLTSATCOM 8 (USA 46) is a US Navy payload satellite, launched on September 25, 1989 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 25, 1989 at 08:56 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas G Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- FLTSATCOM F8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,804 km
- Periapsis
- 35,765 km
- Inclination
- 12.42°
- Orbital period
- 1435.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- US Navy
- Manufacturer
- TRW, Defense and Space Systems Group
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 1,928 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,884 kg
- Design lifetime
- 5 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-077A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20253
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 32.5418 m²
- Status
- Operational