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SES-8
Sign in to saveSES-8 is a geostationary Communications satellite operated by SES SES-8 was successfully launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 on 3 December 2013, 22:41:00 UTC.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 193 inbound references to SES-8, and connects out to Merlin, Hot Bird and communications satellite.
It is catalogued under topics including Communications satellites in geostationary orbit, Satellites of Luxembourg and Satellites using the GEOStar bus.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- SES-8
- Spaceflight.image
- Falcon 9 carrying SES-8 (08).jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SES-8 communications satellite launches from Cape Canaveral SLC-40.
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Communication
- Spaceflight.operator
- SES
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2013-071A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 39460
- Spaceflight.website
- https://www.ses.com/
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 15 years (planned) (elapsed)
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_type
- GEOStar-2
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- STAR-2.4
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Spaceflight.power
- 5 kW
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 3 December 2013, 22:41:00 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Falcon 9 v1.1
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Cape Canaveral, SLC-40
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- SpaceX
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 3170
- Orbital period
- 1436.15
- Image
- Falcon 9 carrying SES-8 (04).jpg
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- periapsis
- 35780
- apoapsis
- 35806
- orbital inclination
- 0.03
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2013-12-03
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Satellite description
- Specifications
- Launch vehicle
- Second-stage reignition
- Prelaunch
- Launch attempts
- See also
- References
SES-8 is a geostationary Communications satellite operated by SES SES-8 was successfully launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 on 3 December 2013, 22:41:00 UTC.
It was the first flight of any SpaceX launch vehicle to a supersynchronous transfer orbit, an orbit with a somewhat larger apogee than the more usual geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) typically utilised for communication satellites.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SES-8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.