| Name of Satellite, Alternate Names | IPEX (Intelligent Payload Experiment, CalPoly 8) |
| Country of Operator/Owner | USA |
| Operator/Owner | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Users | Government |
| Purpose | Technology Development |
| Class of Orbit | LEO |
| Type of Orbit | |
| Longitude of GEO (degrees) | 0 |
| Perigee (km) | 469 |
| Apogee (km) | 890 |
| Eccentricity | 0.0298602737782821 |
| Inclination (degrees) | 120.5 |
| Period (minutes) | 98.3 |
| Launch Mass (kg.) | 1 |
| Dry Mass (kg.) | |
| Power (watts) | |
| Date of Launch | 06-12-2013 |
| Expected Lifetime | |
| Contractor | California Polytechnic University |
| Country of Contractor | USA |
| Launch Site | Vandenberg AFB |
| Launch Vehicle | Atlas 5 |
| COSPAR Number | 2013-072K |
| NORAD Number | 39471 |
| Comments | Designed to validate onboard instrument processing and autonomous payload operations for the proposed NASA HYperSPectral Infra-Red Instrument (HyspIRI) mission. |