Satellite · NORAD 3615 · COSPAR 1968-114A
ESSA 8 (TOS-F)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
101.71°
Period
114.6 min
114.6 min
Perigee
1,413km
Apogee
1,463km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 2 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ESSA 8 (TOS-F)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 15 Dec 1968
- COSPAR launch id
- 1968-114
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- DELTA 1 DEB42084DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB42085DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB42086DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB42087DebrisInactive
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 3615
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1968-114A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJXFDKE190C69E6226E
- Canonical slug
- essa-8-tos-f-3615
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.