Satellite · NORAD 25086 · COSPAR 1997-078A
GALAXY 8 (G-8)
- Operator Intelsat
- Constellation Intelsat fleet
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
14.10°
Period
1.0 d
1,444.4 min
Perigee
35,928km
Apogee
35,969km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 h 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
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 25.0 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Intelsat fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- GALAXY 8 (G-8)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- Intelsat
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Dec 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-078
Objects from the same launch · 1
- ATLAS 2AS CENTAUR R/B25087Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 25086
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-078A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ6NS62CZBE2442YF9K
- Canonical slug
- galaxy-8-g-8-25086
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.