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Luxembourg satellite operator SES (Astra) today announced that its new telecommunications satellite SES 8 was delivered to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The satellite is now ready to start with carrier rocket SpaceX Falcon 9th
SES 8 to draw up and supplied by Orbital Sciences Corporation. The satellite has up to 33 transponders in Ku-36 MHz equivalent units. SES 8 will be placed on a common position with NSS-6 at position 95 ° E and provide additional capacity for Asia and the Pacific.
Cosmic apparatus has high performance volumes that support the rapidly growing markets in South Asia and Indochina, as well as provide additional capacity for DTH, VSAT and government applications.
 
SES-8 | Falcon 9 Geo Transfer Mission

Date
Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:00pm EST — Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:45pm EST

About
In this flight, the Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the SES-8 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). SES-8 is a commercial telecommunications satellite. The SES-8 launch window will open at approximately 5:37 p.m. EDT on November 25, 2013 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Florida. If all goes as planned, the SES-8 satellite will be deployed into its geosynchronous transfer orbit approximately 33 minutes after liftoff.
Links
SpaceX.com http://www.spacex.com
SES.com http://www.ses.com/
 
The launch of the SES-8 satellite is for the 25th November planned. The launch window for the maiden flight of an SES satellite aboard the Falcon 9 launch vehicle covers the period from 17.37 bis 18.42 clock clock (EST 23.37 bis 00.42 clock clock CET), said the Luxembourg satellite operator on 25 November. SES-8 was manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation. The satellite is equipped with up to 33 Ku-band transponders (36 MHz equivalents). SES-8 will copositioned with NSS-6 at the orbital position 95 ° East to supply the Asia-Pacific region with new capacities. The high power of the satellite will serve the rapidly growing markets in South Asia and Indochina as well as provide growth capacity for DTH, VSAT and government applications. In Europe, the start of the Astra's orbital position 19.2 ° East on the frequency 11,627 vertical, symbol rate 22.000, FEC (DVB-S2 8PSK) are received under the service name "SES 8 Launch" 2/3. On www.spacex.com / webcast A webcast is available. The video transfer of the SES-8-offs begins about 30 minutes before the rocket launch.
 
Lovely testcard on Astra.
 

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Molly McCormick is gorgeous, shame about the crackling audio.
 
Terrible audio and the signal keeps dropping.



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Reuters is now taking over at 22W. Might be HD there.
 
Cool, is it MPEG 4.2.0 remlap?



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Not having much luck with tonights launches are we - the coverage on the Proton from Baikonur was dreadful
 
Hixxy1 said:
Cool, is it MPEG 4.2.0 remlap?
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Its H.264 4:2:0 11655 H 143000 DVB-S2

SES has fixed the crackling but its stopping and starting still.
 
Thanks remlap. They could possibly be using an internet stream as part of the feed.



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And Reuters just cancelled it for technical reasons. Not going well tonight.

Livestream.com is doing okay.

And now in a hold at T-13 due to first stage problems.
 
No offence to the Russians, but at least they're not using proton rockets.



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Hixxy1 said:
No offence to the Russians, but at least they're not using proton rockets.
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I wonder if being the first on Falcon-9 is like a 17 year old new driver driving a Ferrari for insurers, can't be cheap for SES.
 
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