Communications
INTELSAT 8 (IS-8)
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEONORAD 25522
INTELSAT 8 (IS-8) is a United States communications satellite, launched on November 4, 1998 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 4, 1998 at 05:12 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- PAS 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 38,520 km
- Periapsis
- 36,032 km
- Inclination
- 9.13°
- Orbital period
- 1512.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,081.27 kg
- Dimensions
- 6.1 × 2.4 × 6.09 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-065A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25522
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 39.8107 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational