SES 8 launched successfully finally!!

[Mudasir 4K]

Breaking news ...

IPMTV Expands, Extends Multi-Year Capacity Deal on Newly-Launched SES-8 Satellite.

Thailand’s IPMTV is leasing
additional capacity and extending its current capacity contract with SES beyond 10 years. The broadcaster will also migrate from SES’ NSS-6 satellite to the newly-launched SES-8 satellite. SES-8 was successfully launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 3 December 2013, and will be co-located with NSS-6 at the prime orbital location of 95 degrees East.
The deal allows IPMTV, an established satellite TV provider, to continue to expand its reach of four million TV households in Thailand. It currently broadcasts over 150 local channels to its subscribers, with 21 channels in High Definition. Manop Tokarnka, CEO, IPMTV, said, “Our customers are demanding more local content and the capacity on SES-8 will enable us to bring them a variety of news and entertainment programmes to meet their needs. We are making our content even more accessible to local audiences and look forward to reaching more homes. Our continued strong partnership with SES means that we can focus on meeting the demands for our services in Thailand.”
“SES understood that IPMTV will
need vital expansion capacity to
grow its thriving video neighbourhood in Thailand
prompting us to adopt an
accelerated satellite design process for SES-8 to ensure that the capacity will be made available quickly to the customer,” said Deepak Mathur, Senior Vice President Commercial, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East at
SES. “We look forward to growing
with IPMTV in the years ahead.”

 

[Mudasir 4K]

Update


Satellite Name: SES 8
Status: moving
Position: 95° E (95° E)
Norad: 39460
Cospar number: 2013-071A
Operator: SES S.A.
Launch date: 3-Dec-2013
Launch site: Cape Canaveral
Launch vehicle: Falcon 9
Launch mass (kg): 3200
Dry mass (kg):
Manufacturer: Orbital Sciences
Corporation (OSC)
Model (bus): GEOStar-2.4 Bus
Orbit: GEO
Expected lifetime: 15 yrs.
Call sign:
Beacon(s): 12248.5, 11198.5
Details:
24 active Ku-band transponders of
36 or 54 Mhz capacity switchable
amongst 33 channels and 2 beams
to provide communication services to
South Asia and Indo-China regions.
Certain channels in each beam are
cross-strapped to multiple frequency
bands, enabling flexibility for new
services. In the addition, the
spacecraft features a Ka-band
payload

 

[Karthik]

Hope for good newyear for dish tv users.

 

[Mudasir 4K]

Yes hoping for the best.

 

[Deep.S]

Good Update!

 

[Prashant Shridhar]

Dishtv will rock on new year...

 

[Mudasir 4K]

SAT LAUNCHED FOR INDIAN DTH

SES-8 Has been launched & Co-
Located With NSS-6 @ 95 deg East.

There is Good News For the
transponder starved Indian DTH industry! On December 3, the SES-8 satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). This was SpaceX's first geostationary transfer mission. "We appreciate SES's early
confidence in SpaceX and look
forward to launching additional SES satellites in the years to come," Elon Musk, CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX said in a statement. SpaceX plans to aggressively compete with
Ariane, and Russian launchers. It
has priced its launches in the $
55-60 million range.
SpaceX currently has nearly 50
launches on manifest, of which more than 60% are for commercial customers.

SES-8

The new 3.2-tonne SES-8 satellite
has cost SES more than US $ 100
million. Built on a GEO-Star bus by Orbital Sciences, SES-8 is co-located with the NSS-6 satellite at 95 degrees east. Both the NSS-6 and SES-8 are owned and operated by Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES.
SES-8 has the equivalent of 33 Ku-
band transponders, each of 36 MHz bandwidth. Although, it was set for launch in early 2013, technical issues delayed the SES-8 to the end of the year.

INDIA CENTRIC

On paper, SES-8 targets both south Asian and south East Asian clients. However, it would clearly hope to sell all its transponder capacity to India. Indian DTH platforms and VSAT networks are starved of transponder capacity, and will welcome the SES-8.
However Indian law permits renting of transponder capacity only from ISRO. Hence SES- 8 will have to sell its transponder capacity to ISRO's commercial arm - Antrix which in turn will re-sell it to Indian end users.


DISH TV TO BENEFIT

The biggest and immediate
beneficiary will be India's oldest and largest DTH platform - DishTV, who already has leased 9 transponders on the colocated NSS-6 also now owned by SES. Each transponder downlinks approximately 15 Standard
definition channels for DishTV.
Dish TV CEO RC Venkateish, had
earlier told the press that his
company planned to add 5
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 also has a long
term contract for additional
transponders on Asiasat, which it
signed in 2010).


SES-9

SES also plans to launch SES-9 in 2015 at 108.2 degree East with extensive Ku-band capacity to supplement the existing SES-7 satellite for better DTH services in South Asia along with north East Asia and Indonesia.

 

[Mudasir 4K]

SES-8 satellite goes into
operation.

SES-8 satellite goes into
operation.

SES’s December-launched SES-8
satellite is now fully operational
at the orbital location of 95
degrees East.
The satellite operator said that the SES-8 has been successfully co- positioned with its NSS-6 satellite.
The Orbital Sciences Corporation-
manufactured satellite will serve
growing markets in South Asia and
Indo-China, features up to 33 Ku-
band transponders and will provide expansion capacity for DTH, VSAT and government applications.