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AMC-5
Defunct geosynchronous direct-broadcast satellite. AMC-5 was launched on October 28, 1998 aboard a Ariane 44L from Kourou. Latest status in GCAT: renamed (November 2001).
COSPAR 1998-063BNORAD 25516United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- GE 5
- Common name
- AMC-5
- International designator
- 1998-063B
- NORAD catalog number
- 25516
- GCAT identifier
- S25516
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/353
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- GE
- Owner
- GE Americom
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Alcatel Space, Centre spatiale de Cannes-Mandelieu
- Platform (bus)
- Spacebus 2000
Launch
- Date
- October 28, 1998 · 22:15 UTC
- Launch record
- 1998-063Success
- Rocket
- Ariane 44L
- Spaceport
- Kourou · pad ELA2
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/D
- Perigee
- 35,495 km
- Apogee
- 35,894 km
- Inclination
- 0.18°
- Status
- Renamed
- Status date
- November 2001
- Last known active
- May 8, 2014
- End of operations
- May 17, 2014
Size
- Mass
- 1,719 kg
- Dry mass
- 769 kg
- Length
- 2.2 m
- Diameter
- 1.60 m
- Span
- 22.4 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q4652546 (CC0).