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AMC-6

AMC-6, formerly GE-6, is a commercial broadcast communications satellite owned by SES Launched on 21 October 2000, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, AMC-6 became the fifth hybrid C-band / Ku-band satellite in the GE Americom fleet. The satellite provides coverage to the continental United States, Canada, the Caribbean islands, southern Greenland, and Latin America. Located in a geostationary orbit parallel to the eastern United States coastline, AMC-6 provides service to commercial and government customers, and is used as an Internet platform due to its wide coverage, scale and redundancy. Some of its capabilities include Very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) networking, satellite news gathering and Ku-band transceiver service. Launched as GE-6, it was renamed AMC-6 when SES took over GE Americom in 2001, forming SES Americom. This merged with SES New Skies in 2009 to form SES World Skies.[1]

Rainbow 2

Rainbow Media announced in November 2004, that it will utilize 16 transponders on the AMC-6 satellite, which VOOM refers to as Rainbow 2.

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  1. SES Americom-New Skies Satellite Division Re-Brands as SES World Skies Reuters, September 7, 2009, retrieved July 4, 2012^
  2. Satellite Manufacturing Special - The time factor Satellite Evolution, September–October 2004, retrieved 3 April 2021^
  3. Display: GE 6 2000-067A NASA, 10 February 2021, retrieved 3 April 2021^
  4. Gunter Krebs. GE 4, 6 / AMC 4, 6 / Rainbow 2 Gunter's Space Page, 12 April 2019, retrieved 3 April 2021^
  5. Satellite Data SES World Skies, retrieved 3 April 2021^
  6. AMC-6 (GE-6) N2YO.com, retrieved 3 April 2021^