Payload
OSO 8
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OSO 8 is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 21, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 21, 1975 at 11:43 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 1910 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OSO 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 235 km
- Periapsis
- 232 km
- Inclination
- 32.93°
- Orbital period
- 89.16 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,054.51 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7970
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 9.0858 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 9, 1986
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 9, 1986
- Time in service
- 11.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed