Intelsat 8

Intelsat 8
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Communication
Operator	PanAmSat Intelsat
COSPAR ID	1998-065A
Mission duration	15 years

Manufacturer	Space Systems Loral

Start of mission
Launch date	4 November 1998, 05:12:00 (1998-11-04UTC05:12Z) UTC
Rocket	Proton-K/DM3
Launch site	Baikonur 200/39

Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Geostationary
Longitude	166° East(1998–2012) 169° East(2012–)

Transponders
Band	24 IEEE C band 24 IEEE K_u band
Coverage area	Asia-Pacific Australia

Intelsat 8 (formerly PAS-8) is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat located at 166° E longitude, serving the Pacific market.

On 13 August 2012 it was replaced with Intelsat 19.^[1]^[2] During September, it was co-located to the same position as Intelsat 5 at 169° East from 166° East to continue its service life as Intelsat 5's replacement later in the year.

On 19 October 2012 at around 2300 UTC, Intelsat 8 took over broadcasting Intelsat 5's television channels which include Australia Network and regular feeds of Entertainment Tonight and The Wall Street Journal Report available via a two meter dish at 4.1 GHz horizontal 26.48 MBd QPSK 3/4.

References

Coordinates: 0°N 166°E / 0°N 166°E / 0; 166

Intelsat, Ltd.

Main articles

Spacecraft

Intelsat I, II, III	Intelsat I Intelsat II F-1 II F-2 II F-3 II F-4 Intelsat III F-1† III F-2 III F-3 III F-4 III F-5† III F-6 III F-7 III F-8†

Intelsat IV	Intelsat IV F-1 IV F-2 IV F-3 IV F-4 IV F-5 IV F-6† IV F-7 IV F-8 IVA F-1 IVA F-2 IVA F-3 IVA F-4 IVA F-5† IVA F-6

Intelsat V	Intelsat V F-1 V F-2 V F-3 V F-4 V F-5 V F-6 V F-7 V F-8 V F-9† VA F-10 VA F-11 VA F-12 VA F-13 VA F-14† VA F-15

Intelsat VI	Intelsat 601 602 603 604 605

Intelsat 7-10	Intelsat 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708† 709 801 802 803 804 805 806 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 10-02

ex-PanAmSat	Intelsat 1R 2 3R 4 5 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12

Recent Intelsat	Intelsat 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27† 28 (a.k.a. "New Dawn") 29e 30 31 32e 33e 34 35e 36 37e 38 39

Galaxy (Intelsat Americas)	Galaxy 3C 4R 5 9 10R 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 23 25 26 27 28

Other	APR-1 APR-2 Horizons-1 Horizons-2 Horizons-3e Intelsat K Marisat-F2 SBS 6

Future launches are in italics, failed launches with † sign.

← 1997 · Orbital launches in 1998 · 1999 →

Lunar Prospector \| Skynet 4D \| Ofek-4 \| STS-89 \| Soyuz TM-27 \| USA-137 \| Brasilsat B3 · Inmarsat-3 F5 \| Orbcomm FM3 · Orbcomm FM4 · GFO · Ad Astra \| Globalstar 1 · Globalstar 2 · Globalstar 3 · Globalstar 4 \| Kosmos 2349 \| Iridium 50 · Iridium 52 · Iridium 53 · Iridium 54 · Iridium 56 \| Kakehashi \| SNOE · Teledesic 1 \| Hot Bird 4 \| Intelsat 806 \| Progress M-38 (VDU-2) \| USA-138 \| SPOT 4 \| Iridium 51 · Iridium 61 \| Iridium 55 · Iridium 57 · Iridium 58 · Iridium 59 · Iridium 60 \| TRACE \| Iridium 62 · Iridium 63 · Iridium 64 · Iridium 65 · Iridium 66 · Iridium 67 · Iridium 68 \| STS-90 \| Globalstar 6 · Globalstar 8 · Globalstar 14 · Globalstar 15 \| Nilesat 101 · BSat-1B \| Kosmos 2350 \| Iridium 69 · Iridium 71 \| Kosmos 2351 \| EchoStar IV \| USA-139 \| NOAA-15 \| Progress M-39 \| Iridium 70 · Iridium 72 · Iridium 73 · Iridium 74 · Iridium 75 \| Zhongwei 1 \| STS-91 \| Thor 3 \| Kosmos 2352 · Kosmos 2353 · Kosmos 2354 · Kosmos 2355 · Kosmos 2356 · Kosmos 2357 \| Intelsat 805 \| Kosmos 2358 \| Kosmos 2359 \| Molniya 3-49 \| Nozomi \| Shtil-1 · Tubsat-N · Tubsat-N1 \| Resurs-O1 #4 · Fasat-Bravo · TMSAT · Gurwin Techsat 1B · WESTPAC · SAFIR-2 \| Sinosat-1 \| Kosmos 2360 \| Orbcomm FM13 · Orbcomm FM14 · Orbcomm FM15 · Orbcomm FM16 · Orbcomm FM17 · Orbcomm FM18 · Orbcomm FM19 · Orbcomm FM20 \| Mercury 3 \| Soyuz TM-28 \| Iridium 3 · Iridium 76 \| ST-1 \| Galaxy 10 \| Astra 2A \| Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1 \| Iridium 77 · Iridium 79 · Iridium 80 · Iridium 81 · Iridium 82 \| Globalstar 5 · Globalstar 7 · Globalstar 9 · Globalstar 10 · Globalstar 11 · Globalstar 12 · Globalstar 13 · Globalstar 16 · Globalstar 17 · Globalstar 18 · Globalstar 20 · Globalstar 21 \| PAS-7 \| Orbcomm FM21 · Orbcomm FM22 · Orbcomm FM23 · Orbcomm FM24 · Orbcomm FM25 · Orbcomm FM26 · Orbcomm FM27 · Orbcomm FM28 \| Molniya-1T #99 \| STEX (USA-141) \| Eutelsat W2 · Sirius 3 \| Hot Bird 5 \| USA-140 \| Maqsat 3 \| Deep Space 1 · SEDSAT-1 \| Progress M-40 (Sputnik 41) \| AfriStar · GE-5 \| STS-95 (SPARTAN-201 · PANSAT) \| PAS-8 \| Iridium 2 · Iridium 83 · Iridium 84 · Iridium 85 · Iridium 86 \| Zarya / ISS \| Bonum 1 \| STS-88 (Unity · PMA-1 · PMA-2 · SAC-A · MightySat-1 \| Satmex 5 \| SWAS \| Nadezhda 5 · Astrid 2 \| Mars Climate Orbiter \| Iridium 11 · Iridium 20 \| PAS-6B \| Kosmos 2361 \| Kosmos 2362 · Kosmos 2363 · Kosmos 2364

Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( \| ). Manned flights are indicated in bold text. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in brackets.

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