DIRECTV 8
Launch
Launched on May 22, 2005 from 200/39 (200L), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M Briz-M.
Proton-M Briz-M | DirecTV-8 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 21:30 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
United States Government
Country
United States
Manufacturer
—
Launched
May 22, 2005
Mass
—
Apogee
35,807 km
Perigee
35,782 km
Inclination
0.02°
Period
23.94 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for DIRECTV 8 across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
-0.4 km
Rate
-0.00 km/day
Now
35782 × 35807 km
Apogee Perigee
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
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