The DirecTV 8 satellite provides selectable medium and high power Ku-band broadcast services to the U.S. on up to 32 transponders. The service is optimized to support the current and next generation higher coding rate services that DirecTV provides.

Mission type: Communications · Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Rocket: Proton-M Briz-M · Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center