2008 · Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
AMC 14
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American communications satellite scheduled to operate in GEO, but was left stranded in a too low transfer orbit due to a launch vehicle failure. It was sold to the US Department of Defense and operated from geosynchronous orbit.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 14, 2008 at 11:18 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L)
- Mission
- AMC 14
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geosynchronous Orbit