Status
Partial Failure
Rocket
Mission Details
AMC-14
AMC-14 is a BSS satellite also built by Lockheed Martin with 32 (24 MHz) Ku-band transponders each supported by a 150 Watt TWTA; the spacecraft features the highest levels of redundancy on core components such as amplifiers, receivers, commanding beam, and computer control systems. The satellite was to provide Direct to Home services in the United States from a slot to be determined. AMC-14 was to be the first BSS satellite operated in SES AMERICOM's domestic fleet.
EchoStar, which had a contract to lease the whole capacity of AMC 14, asked that the satellite's payload be modified to make it more flexible, and notably that it be capable of operating at least temporarily from Mexico's 77 degrees west longitude orbital slot. Due to the modifications, the satellite was not launched before 2008.