Payload
AMC-2 (GE-2)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
AMC-2 (GE-2) is a SES payload satellite, launched on January 30, 1997 into GEO.
Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- January 30, 1997 at 10:04 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- GE 2 & Nahuel 1A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,025 km
- Periapsis
- 36,002 km
- Inclination
- 10.81°
- Orbital period
- 1447.7 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES
- Launch mass
- 1,441.03 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24713
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 15.2492 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational