Geostationary
WGS F8 (USA 272)
Military Wideband Communications · US Space Force
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The eighth WGS satellite, positioned over the Indo-Pacific to support the US military's rebalance toward the Asia theater. WGS-8 fills coverage gaps in the Pacific constellation and provides redundancy for the most strategically contested communications environment the US military faces — where adversary anti-satellite capabilities and electronic warfare are most sophisticated.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,242–22,243 mi (35,795–35,796 km)
- Inclination
- 0.0°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 41879
- Int’l designator
- 2016-075A
- Launched
- 2016
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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