AMC-8 (GE-8)
NORAD 26639 · Payload · In orbit since 2000
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2000-12-20 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- SES (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 2,015 kg
- Size
- 4.1 × 3.6 m · 14.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,091 × 36,118 km
- Inclination
- 6.2°
- Period
- 1452.0 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0003
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.