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DSP F8
These Defense Support System satellites were the space-based segment of a 2-tiered ballistic missile launch detection and warning system.. DSP F8 was launched on June 10, 1979 aboard a Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1979-053ANORAD 11397United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- DSP F8
- Payload designation
- DSP 11
- Other names
- OPS 7484
- International designator
- 1979-053A
- NORAD catalog number
- 11397
- GCAT identifier
- S11397
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/026
Mission
- Mission type
- Missile early warning
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- DSP MP
- Owner
- SAMSO
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- TRW Inc.
- Platform (bus)
- DSP MOS/PIM
Launch
- Date
- June 10, 1979 · 13:39 UTC
- Launch record
- 1979-053Success
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC40
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/ID
- Perigee
- 35,671 km
- Apogee
- 35,785 km
- Inclination
- 3.00°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- 1985
- End of operations
- 1985
Size
- Mass
- 1,180 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,050 kg
- Length
- 7.0 m
- Diameter
- 2.80 m
- Span
- 7.7 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q113172727 (CC0).