Payload
OSCAR 8 (AO-8)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 10703
OSCAR 8 (AO-8) is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 5, 1978 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- March 5, 1978 at 05:54 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2910 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Landsat 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 901 km
- Periapsis
- 888 km
- Inclination
- 99.33°
- Orbital period
- 102.87 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 26.76 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.15 × 0.3 × 0.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-026B
- NORAD catalog №
- 10703
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.4452 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational