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Satellite · NORAD 10703 · COSPAR 1978-026B

OSCAR 8 (AO-8)

UnknownPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

99.33°

Period

102.9 min

102.9 min

Perigee

885km

Apogee

904km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
0.4 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • OSCAR 8 (AO-8)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
05 Mar 1978
COSPAR launch id
1978-026
Launch site
Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 1978-026 →

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
10703
COSPAR / international designator
1978-026B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMQ1H87SCVAVFKDKZAG
Canonical slug
oscar-8-ao-8-10703

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.