DirecTV-8 Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

22 May 2005, 5:59pm

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Site

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Pad

200/39 (200L)

Launch Service Provider

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Vehicle

Proton-M Briz-M image

Proton-M Briz-M

Mission

DirecTV-8

Mission Type

Communications

Destination

Geostationary Orbit

The DirecTV 8 satellite provides selectable medium and high power Ku-band broadcast services to the U.S. on up to 32 transponders. The service is optimized to support the current and next generation higher coding rate services that DirecTV provides.

Updated: Jan 3, 7:59pm UTC

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