Communications
ECHOSTAR 8
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 22, 2002 at 05:15 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Echostar VIII
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,334 km
- Periapsis
- 36,243 km
- Inclination
- 8.81°
- Orbital period
- 1461.8 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-039A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27501
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 11.3214 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational