OSO-8 (Orbiting Solar Observatory 8), NASA’s eighth and final OSO solar physics satellite for UV and X-ray studies of the Sun. Delta 1910 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B placed the craft in LEO on 21 June 1975—the last flight of the Delta 1000 series.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Delta 1910 flight
- Date and time
- 21 June 1975, 11:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 1910
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1975-057
- Launches in 1975
- 61st of 132
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