AMC 14 Mission

Launch Status

Failure

Date & Time

14 Mar 2008, 11:18pm

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Site

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Pad

200/39 (200L)

Launch Service Provider

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Vehicle

Proton-M Briz-M image

Proton-M Briz-M

Mission

AMC 14

Mission Type

Communications

Destination

Geosynchronous Orbit

American communications satellite scheduled to operate in GEO, but was left stranded in a too low transfer orbit due to a launch vehicle failure. It was sold to the US Department of Defense and operated from geosynchronous orbit.

Updated: Jan 3, 8:00pm UTC

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