Landsat 8
COSPAR 2013-008A · NORAD 39084
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 2013-02-11
- Status (SATCAT)
- operational
- Launch site code
- AFWTR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 2013-008A
- NORAD ID
- 39,084
Source:NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Period
- 98.83 min
- Inclination
- 98.22°
- Apogee
- 703 km
- Perigee
- 702 km
- Orbit center code
- EA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It circles Earth every 99 minutes — about 14.6 orbits a day (CelesTrak).
- Someone born in its launch year (2013) turns 13 this year.