AMC-16

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

12:07:00

Friday December 17, 2004

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

AMC-16

The AMC-16 is a communications satellite spacecraft model made by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in the 1990s-2010s for telecommunications in geosynchronous orbit, as well as GOES-R weather satellites and GPS Block IIIA satellites.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

4,065 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas V 521

Active 2003 to 2004

United Launch Alliance logo

Manufacturer

ULA

Price

$135.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.81m

Height: 62.2m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 13,500 kg

GTO: 6,480 kg

Liftoff Thrust

7,152 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.4m

Height: 26.5m

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

SLC-41

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

15 days 22 hours

Stats

Atlas V


4th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2004

2004


49th

Orbital launch attempt