Payload
DIRECTV 8
OperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 22, 2005 at 05:59 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- DirecTV-8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,799 km
- Periapsis
- 35,775 km
- Inclination
- 0.02°
- Orbital period
- 1436.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- DirecTV, Inc.
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,800 kg
- Power
- 8,200 W
- Design lifetime
- 12 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2005-019A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28659
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 16.6707 m²
- Status
- Operational
