Payload
AMC-8 (GE-8)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
AMC-8 (GE-8) is a SES payload satellite, launched on December 20, 2000 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 20, 2000 at 12:26 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 G →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Astra 2D & GE-8, LDREX
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,123 km
- Periapsis
- 36,085 km
- Inclination
- 6.11°
- Orbital period
- 1452.36 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES
- Launch mass
- 2,015 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-081B
- NORAD catalog №
- 26639
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 25.1189 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational