L8 is referenced to the WRS-2 system and operates in a 705 km near-circular polar, sun synchronous orbit with an equatorial crossing at approximately 10:13 a.m. mean local time during the descending node of each orbit. L8 has two sensors on board, Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) and these two sensors collect data nearly coincidentally.