Payload
AMSC 1
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
AMSC 1 is a Mobile Satellite Ventures payload satellite, launched on April 7, 1995 into GEO.
Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- April 7, 1995 at 11:47 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- AMSC 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,245 km
- Periapsis
- 36,099 km
- Inclination
- 13.32°
- Orbital period
- 1455.85 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Mobile Satellite Ventures
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Space and Communications Co.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 1,635.28 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,330 kg
- Power
- 3,300 W
- Design lifetime
- 10 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1995-019A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23553
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States
- Radar cross-section
- 16.9728 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational