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MUMBAI: Paris-based satellite communications company SES has said that the SES-8 satellite has been successfully co-positioned with SES’s NSS-6 satellite at the orbital location of 95 degrees east and is now fully operational to serve the thriving markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
The successful co-positioning of SES-8 will benefit Dish TV which will soon be able to increase its capacity. As of now, Dish TV has nine transponders on NSS-6, each able to host about 15 channels. It is immediately looking at adding another transponder.
In a recent interview, Dish TV CEO RC Venkateish had told Tele visionPost.com that the company would add five transponders from SES to beef up its existing capacity. “We have got one transponder already allocated and this should cost us about $1.3 million as rental outgo per year,” he had said.
Dish TV already has a long-term contract for additional transponders on Asiasat, which it had signed in 2010.
Manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation, SES-8 was launched on 3 December 2013 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on board a SpaceX/Falcon 9 booster in SpaceX’s maiden launch into geostationary transfer orbit. Since then, extensive in-orbit tests have confirmed the flawless functioning of the spacecraft.
The satellite features up to 33 Ku-band transponders (36 MHz equivalent) and is equipped with high performance beams to support the rapidly growing markets in South Asia and Indo-China, as well as to provide expansion capacity for DTH, VSAT and government applications.
Through the co-location with NSS-6 at 95 degrees East, SES-8 not only provides incremental high performance capacity, notably for DTH services, but also delivers greater reliability and additional security for SES’ customers at that orbital position.
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Dish TV to gain as SES-8 satellite becomes operational | TelevisionPost.com
The successful co-positioning of SES-8 will benefit Dish TV which will soon be able to increase its capacity. As of now, Dish TV has nine transponders on NSS-6, each able to host about 15 channels. It is immediately looking at adding another transponder.
In a recent interview, Dish TV CEO RC Venkateish had told Tele visionPost.com that the company would add five transponders from SES to beef up its existing capacity. “We have got one transponder already allocated and this should cost us about $1.3 million as rental outgo per year,” he had said.
Dish TV already has a long-term contract for additional transponders on Asiasat, which it had signed in 2010.
Manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation, SES-8 was launched on 3 December 2013 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on board a SpaceX/Falcon 9 booster in SpaceX’s maiden launch into geostationary transfer orbit. Since then, extensive in-orbit tests have confirmed the flawless functioning of the spacecraft.
The satellite features up to 33 Ku-band transponders (36 MHz equivalent) and is equipped with high performance beams to support the rapidly growing markets in South Asia and Indo-China, as well as to provide expansion capacity for DTH, VSAT and government applications.
Through the co-location with NSS-6 at 95 degrees East, SES-8 not only provides incremental high performance capacity, notably for DTH services, but also delivers greater reliability and additional security for SES’ customers at that orbital position.
Source -
Dish TV to gain as SES-8 satellite becomes operational | TelevisionPost.com
