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SES-8 is a geostationary communication satellite operated by SES. SES-8 was successfully launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 on 3 December 2013, 22:41 UTC.〔(SatBeams: SES-8 )〕 It was the first flight of any SpaceX launch vehicle to a supersynchronous transfer orbit〔 an orbit with a somewhat larger apogee than the more usual Geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) typically utilized for communication satellites.〔 〕 ==Satellite== The SES-8 satellite is built on the GEOStar-2.4 satellite bus by Orbital Sciences.〔 It is the sixth satellite of that model to be built for SES.〔 〕 The commsat will be initially co-located at 95° East 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=SES-8 on Gunter's Space Page )〕 with NSS-6 in order to provide communications bandwidth growth capacity in the Asia-Pacific region, specifically aimed at high-growth markets in South Asia and Indo-China, "as well as provide expansion capacity for DTH, VSAT and government applications."〔 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=SES-8 on SES.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SES-8」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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