NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

AMC-16

Launch Time
Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:07 UTC

Rocket

Atlas V 521
Image Credit: ULA
ILS
Status: Retired
Price: $135.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,152 kN
Payload to LEO: 13,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 6,480 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 62.2 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.4 m
Fairing Height: 26.5 m

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.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 4,065.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

2004

49th orbital launch attempt

Atlas V

4th mission
1st mission of 2004
4th successful mission