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Designator id: 1998-065A

Description of INTELSAT 8 (PAS 8) Satellite:

PANAMSAT 8 was an American geosynchronous communications spacecraft. It carries 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders to provide digital television channels after parking over 166 degrees E longitude. It was based on the Space Systems/Loral three-axis, body-FS-1300 bus, whose modular design has proven its worth during some 275 years of cumulative on-orbit service. Solar arrays and nickel-hydrogen batteries provided uninterrupted electrical power.

Technical data:
Launch Date: 1998-11-04
Launch Vehicle: Proton-K
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
Mass: 2100.0 kg

Funding Agencies:
Pan American Satellite (United States)
International Telecommunications Satellite Corporation (International)

Disciplines:
Communications

Source: Nasa

Two Line Element Set (TLE):

1 25522U 98065A   12337.74806574 -.00000020  00000-0  10000-3 0  2902
2 25522 000.0135 268.9709 0003304 331.6779 269.6520 01.00272808 51648

Last TLE update on :2012-12-03

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