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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.
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
- Instance of
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Operator
- SES S.A.
- Mass
- 3170
- Orbital period
- 1436.15
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Image
- Falcon 9 carrying SES-8 (04).jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- type of orbit
- geostationary orbit
- periapsis
- 35780
- apoapsis
- 35806
- orbital inclination
- 0.03
- launch contractor
- SpaceX
- space launch vehicle
- Falcon 9
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2013-12-03
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40
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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.