Satellite · NORAD 25522 · COSPAR 1998-065A
INTELSAT 8 (IS-8)
- Operator Intelsat
- Constellation Intelsat fleet
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
9.36°
Period
1.1 d
1,512.8 min
Perigee
36,041km
Apogee
38,510km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 13 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
- 39.8 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Intelsat fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- INTELSAT 8 (IS-8)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- Intelsat
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 04 Nov 1998
- COSPAR launch id
- 1998-065
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 3
- SL-12 PLAT25524DebrisDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(1)25523Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(2)25525Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 25522
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1998-065A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ95R9Y8N3H7XFHPTEW
- Canonical slug
- intelsat-8-is-8-25522
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.