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GPS SVN 8
American GPS navigation satellite. GPS SVN 8 was launched on July 14, 1983 aboard a Atlas E/SGS-2 from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1983-072ANORAD 14189United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- GPS 8
- Common name
- GPS SVN 8
- Payload designation
- GPS SVN 8
- Other names
- OPS 9794:C,Navstar 8
- International designator
- 1983-072A
- NORAD catalog number
- 14189
- GCAT identifier
- S14189
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/097
Mission
- Mission type
- Navigation
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- GPS I
- Owner
- USAF SD
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Rockwell/Seal Beach
- Platform (bus)
- GPS
Launch
- Date
- July 14, 1983 · 10:21 UTC
- Launch record
- 1983-072Success
- Rocket
- Atlas E/SGS-2
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC3W
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- MEO
- Perigee
- 19,924 km
- Apogee
- 20,440 km
- Inclination
- 62.85°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- May 4, 1993
- End of operations
- May 4, 1993
Size
- Mass
- 431 kg
- Dry mass
- 431 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 792 kg
- Length
- 2.4 m
- Diameter
- 2.60 m
- Span
- 5.3 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q7072866 (CC0).