SES8

Great on board footage as the first stage separated :)

And then as the fairing fell off.
 
LAUNCH SUCCESS FOR SES-8 SATELLITE ON BOARD SPACEX/FALCON 9
03.12.2013

55th SES satellite to serve Asia

Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 03rd, 2013 – SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announces that the SES-8 satellite was successfully launched into space at 17:41 EST (23:41 CET) from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. A Falcon 9 booster operated by SpaceX successfully injected the SES-8 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit, 31 minutes after lift-off, in what was SES’s maiden use of a SpaceX/Falcon 9 rocket. SES has three more SpaceX/Falcon 9 boosters under contract.

SES-8 was manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation. The satellite features up to 33 Ku-band transponders (36 MHz equivalent). SES-8 is authorized by The Netherlands and will be co-located with NSS-6 at the orbital location of 95 degrees East to provide growth capacity over Asia-Pacific. The spacecraft’s high performance beams will support the rapidly growing markets in South Asia and Indo-China, as well as provide expansion capacity for DTH, VSAT and government applications.

Romain Bausch, President and CEO of SES, stated: “SES’s maiden launch on board a Falcon 9 rocket is yet another example of our company’s spirit of innovation and advancement of the commercial space industry. We congratulate the SpaceX team for the success of a challenging launch campaign and our longstanding supplier Orbital for innovating with us in exploring new paths to orbit while delivering a brand-new, state-of-the-art satellite for Asia. Our customers are looking forward to the new capacity, and we are delighted that SES, in collaboration with SpaceX and Orbital, is all set to deliver following today’s successful launch. Through the co-location with NSS-6 at 95 degrees East, SES-8 will not only provide incremental high performance capacity, notably for DTH services, it will also create greater reliability and additional security for customers. The SES-8 satellite will significantly contribute to SES’s growing presence in Asia-Pacific.”

“Today’s successful insertion of the SES-8 satellite marks SpaceX’s first geo-synchronous transfer mission and confirms the Falcon 9 launch vehicle lives up to the industry’s highest performance standards,” said Elon Musk, CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX. “As always, SpaceX remains committed to delivering the safest, most reliable launch vehicles on the market today. We appreciate SES’s early confidence in SpaceX and look forward to launching additional SES satellites in the years to come.”

Note to Editors:

The next SES launch is slated for early next year, when an European Ariane 5 vehicle will orbit the ASTRA 5B satellite from Kourou, French Guyana.
 
Last TLE suggests SES-8 stopped at 81.0 East instead.
 
Testing at 81 East must have finished already, SES-8 is on its way to 95 East and should be there around 26 January.
 
That'll be fun seeing as I've moved to Thailand :D
Will swing the dish round when I've the time.
 
Isn't your dish in Thailand already pointing to 95 East? Just curious of course, what else there is on Ku-band.
Of couse you'll put up the obligatory 1.8 m C-band for 78.5 East as well?

For Solly, unlike NSS-6, I'm afraid SES-8 has no ME beam...
 
here problem to get india beam from nss6 need very large meter to get dish tv
maybe 6 meter or more
nss6 me beam south italy cut the beam
it direct beam of india
ses8 have south asia beam
 
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hvdh said:
Isn't your dish in Thailand already pointing to 95 East? Just curious of course, what else there is on Ku-band.
Of couse you'll put up the obligatory 1.8 m C-band for 78.5 East as well?

For Solly, unlike NSS-6, I'm afraid SES-8 has no ME beam...
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Got 2.4m pointing at 78.5 for the free channels and a 60cm ku also pointing at 78.5 for the True Visions subscriptions.

There's a new provider that's launched called CTH and they won the rights for the premier league. They use Vinasat 2 @131.8E. The other channels are crap compared to True Visions so it's only the bars that subscribe to CTH. Suppose it's good for the bar business.

One strange thing I've noticed is that you've got to rent the receivers from the providers and you don't own them.

The 2.4m is motorised and also got a spare 60cm already up which has a full view to the horizon. Gonna have a good play when I've got the time :)

Should have packed brought the duo across with me but then I would be able to stream the uk telly lol
 
Hixxy1 said:
There's a new provider that's launched called CTH and they won the rights for the premier league.
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There are 3 frequencies !!! with HD promos of CTH provider on Eutelsat 3A @ 3.3° East .

 
Aaaah I thought it was the bar with a quad video multiplexer. That would explain a lot.

Very strange why they're showing promos on 3.3e unless they're planning on cracking into the euro market.

The commentary is the usual English folks but the presenters at half time look hilarious.



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solly said:
here problem to get india beam from nss6 need very large meter to get dish tv
maybe 6 meter or more
nss6 me beam south italy cut the beam
it direct beam of india
ses8 have south asia beam
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The SE Asia beam is primarily focused on Thailand and surrounding countries like Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore etc.

Will swing the spare dish round when I get a meter and see which transponders are active. The skybox f5s are cheap here lol

Also got some good pictures of big dishes from the tv transmitter sites to upload. Think Ross has seen a couple of them.




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