Payload
AMC-6
OperationalPayloadGEO
AMC-6 is a SES S.A. payload satellite, launched on October 21, 2000 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 21, 2000 at 10:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- GE 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,801 km
- Periapsis
- 35,772 km
- Inclination
- 0.14°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES S.A.
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,552 kg
- Dry mass
- 2,500 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-067A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26580
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 13.6109 m²
- Status
- Operational