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AMC-1 (GE-1)

NORAD 24315 · Payload · In orbit since 1996

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Launched
1996-09-08 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
Country / operator
SES (Europe)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
2,783 kg
Size
3.3 × 1.8 m · 22 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
35,978 × 36,025 km
Inclination
9.2°
Period
1446.7 min
Eccentricity
0.0006
Orbit data
Reconstructed from catalog orbit

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).

Same launch

Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.