Payload
OV1-8
DecayedPayloadLEO
OV1-8 is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 14, 1966 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 14, 1966 at 02:10 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- SM-65D Atlas →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OV1-7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 410 km
- Periapsis
- 393 km
- Inclination
- 144.15°
- Orbital period
- 92.59 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 3.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-063A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2324
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.1144 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 4, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 4, 1978
- Time in service
- 11.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed