Payload
LES-8
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
LES-8 is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 15, 1976 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 15, 1976 at 01:25 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Titan IIIC →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- LES 8, 9 & Solrad 11A, 11B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,922 km
- Periapsis
- 35,653 km
- Inclination
- 22.38°
- Orbital period
- 1436.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 449.95 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-023A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8746
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.8059 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational