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AMC-9
Retired commercial broadcast communications satellite. AMC-9 was launched on June 6, 2003 aboard a Proton-K/Briz-M from Baikonur. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 2003-024ANORAD 27820United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- AMC 9
- Common name
- AMC-9
- Payload designation
- Americom 9
- International designator
- 2003-024A
- NORAD catalog number
- 27820
- GCAT identifier
- S27820
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/434
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- AMC
- Owner
- SES Americom
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Alcatel Space, Centre spatiale de Cannes-Mandelieu
- Platform (bus)
- Spacebus 3000B3
Launch
- Date
- June 6, 2003 · 22:15 UTC
- Launch record
- 2003-024Success
- Rocket
- Proton-K/Briz-M
- Spaceport
- Baikonur · pad LC200/39
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/S
- Perigee
- 35,779 km
- Apogee
- 35,793 km
- Inclination
- 0.04°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- August 2017
- End of operations
- August 2017
Size
- Mass
- 4,000 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,500 kg
- Length
- 5.5 m
- Diameter
- 2.50 m
- Span
- 38.0 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q16061254 (CC0).