NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

AMC-9

Launch Time
Fri Jun 06, 2003 22:15 UTC

Rocket

Proton-K/Briz-M
ILS
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 9,548 kN
Payload to LEO: 19,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 2,200 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 54.54 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m
Fairing Height: 13.2 m

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