Satellite · NORAD 2766 · COSPAR 1967-040B
OPS 6679 (VELA 8)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
36.49°
Period
4.7 d
6,762.2 min
Perigee
57,110km
Apogee
167,043km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 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
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 0.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- OPS 6679 (VELA 8)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 28 Apr 1967
- COSPAR launch id
- 1967-040
Objects from the same launch · 6
- VELA 7/8 INTERSTAGE60000DebrisInactive
- OPS 6638 (VELA 7)2765PayloadUnknown
- ERS 182767PayloadUnknown
- ERS 20 (OV5-3)2768PayloadUnknown
- ERS 27 (OV5-1)2769PayloadUnknown
- TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B2770Rocket 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
- 2766
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1967-040B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJQN5RR4JXM9WMCX28S
- Canonical slug
- ops-6679-vela-8-2766
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.