AsiaSat 8 then AMOS-7 is a Hong Kong-turned-Israeli geostationary communications satellite which is operated by the Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (Asiasat).
AsiaSat 8 was built by Space Systems/Loral, and is based on the LS-1300 satellite bus. The satellite carries twenty-four Ku-band transponders and one Ka-band payload, and was planned to be initially positioned above the equator, at a longitude of 105.5ð East, providing coverage of southern and south-eastern Asia, China and the Middle East.
SpaceX was contracted to launch AsiaSat 8, using a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle. The launch took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) on 5 August 2014 at 08:00 UTC.
The Falcon 9 upper stage used to launch AsiaSat 8 is in a decaying elliptical low Earth orbit that, , had an initial perigee of and an initial apogee of . One month on, in September 2014, the orbit had decayed to an altitude of at its closest approach to Earth, and by November 2014 had decayed to a perigee.
In December 2016, Spacecom made a US$88 million four-year agreement with AsiaSat to lease AsiaSat 8 Ku-band. It is providing service at 4ð West.