AMC-15

 2004-041A

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Ku/Ka A2100 satellite for SES Americom. A2100 built at Newtown/Pa and Sunnyvale/Ca.

Launch mass 4021 kg.

Echostar is the anchor customer and refers to it as Echostar 15.

AMC-15
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2004 Oct 14	2123:00	Launch by Proton-M 53508 /Briz-M 88510	KB PL200/39
		T+2:03 Stage 1 sep
	2128	T+5:35 Stage 2 sep
	2128	T+5:48 Fairing sep	-4900? x 140? x 51.5
	2132	T+9:48 Stage 3 sep
	2134	T+11:22 Briz-M MES-1
	2142	T+19:06 MECO-1	173 x 176 x 51.5
	2221	T+58:27 MES-2
	2258	T+1:32:29 MECO-2	890 x 35765 x 49.1
	2300?	T+1:33:50 DTB sep over 42N 37E	892 x 35725 x 49.0
2004 Oct 15	0358	T+6:35:17 MES-3
	0404	T+6:41:54 MECO-3
	0417	T+6:54:30 Briz-M sep	770.1 7130 x 35775 x 18.6
		MES-4 avoidance
		MECO-4
2004 Oct 18		LAM-1	872.20 11963 x 35759 x 11.5
2004 Oct 19		LAM-2	1005.68 17987 x 35757 x 6.6
2004 Oct 21		LAM-3	1196.68 26163 x 35755 x 2.8
2004 Oct 22	1830?	LAM-4
2004 Oct 27			1435.91 35772 x 35793 x 0.0 GEO 136.0W
2004 Dec 9		mv out
2005 Jan 1		mv in	1436.18 35786 x 35790 x 0.0 GEO 117.0W
2005 Mar 18		mv out
2005 Mar 24		mv in	1436.06 35783 x 35788 x 0.0 GEO 113.1W
2005 May 12		mv out
2005 Jun 2		mv in	1436.08 35784 x 35787 x 0.1 GEO 105.0W
2006 Aug 8			1436.09 35783 x 35789 x 0.0 GEO 105.0W
2008 Mar 4			1436.08 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 105.1W