Payload
TDRS 8
OperationalPayloadGEO
TDRS 8 is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) payload satellite, launched on June 30, 2000 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 30, 2000 at 12:56 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- TDRS 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,808 km
- Periapsis
- 35,767 km
- Inclination
- 12.68°
- Orbital period
- 1436.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Satellite Systems
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 3,180 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,600 kg
- Design lifetime
- 11 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-034A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26388
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 26.766 m²
- Status
- Operational