Status
Success
AMC-9
Launch Time
Fri Jun 06, 2003 22:15 UTC
Fri Jun 06, 2003 22:15 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
AMC-9
SES Americom's AMC-9 (ordered as GE 12 by GE Americom) was constructed on Alcatel's highly reliable Spacebus-3000B3 platform – over 30 spacecraft based on this platform are in service.
The spacecraft features twenty-four 36 MHz C-band transponders and twenty-four 36 MHz Ku-band transponders, providing service into the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean from a 79º W orbital location.
In June 2017, AMC-9 suffered a severe anomaly, which caused the satellite to slowly drift from its position at 83° west and needed the transfer of the customers to other satellites. Several fragments were observed after the anomaly. Communications were reestablished on 1 July. The operator tries to move the satellite to a graveyard orbit.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 4,100.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Location
Site 200/39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
2003
24th orbital launch attempt
Proton-K
294th mission
2nd mission of 2003
259th successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission