Payload
GORIZONT 8
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
GORIZONT 8 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 30, 1983 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 30, 1983 at 01:51 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Gorizont 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,468 km
- Periapsis
- 36,247 km
- Inclination
- 9.6°
- Orbital period
- 1465.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,101.09 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-118A
- NORAD catalog №
- 14532
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.9093 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational