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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
12:07:00
Friday December 17, 2004
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
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
Manufacturer
ULAPrice
$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
4th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2004
49th
Orbital launch attempt