Communications
SES-8
OperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 3, 2013 at 10:41 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Falcon 9 v1.1 →
- Operator
- SpaceX
- Mission
- SES-8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,798 km
- Periapsis
- 35,776 km
- Inclination
- 0.02°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES S.A.
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corp.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,138 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-071A
- NORAD catalog №
- 39460
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 53.3274 m²
- Status
- Operational