Payload
AMC-3
OperationalPayloadGEO
AMC-3 is a Global Eagle Entertainment payload satellite, launched on September 4, 1997 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 4, 1997 at 12:03 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIAS →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- GE 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,147 km
- Periapsis
- 36,112 km
- Inclination
- 8.15°
- Orbital period
- 1453.65 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Global Eagle Entertainment
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Commercial Space Systems
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 1,585.73 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,600 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-050A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24936
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 8.3589 m²
- Status
- Operational