The SES-8 satellite was designed and manufactured by Orbital Sciences in the USA.
SES-8 is a geostationary communication satellite operated by SES. SES-8 was successfully launched on SpaceXFalcon 9 v1.1 on 3 December 2013, 22:41 UTC.[2]
It was the first flight of any SpaceX launch vehicle to a supersynchronous transfer orbit,[3] an orbit with a somewhat larger apogee than the more usual Geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) typically utilized for communication satellites.[