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.

names list	GE-6 (1997-2001) AMC-6 (2001-present) Rainbow 2 (2004-present)
mission type	Communications
operator	GE Americom (2000-2001) SES Americom (2001-2009) SES World Skies (2009-2011) SES (2011-present)
cospar id	2000-067A
satcat	26580
website	AMC-6 website
mission duration	15 years (planned) (elapsed)
spacecraft	GE-6
spacecraft bus	A2100AX
manufacturer	Lockheed Martin
launch mass	3909 kg
launch date	21 October 2000, 22:00:00 UTC
launch rocket	Proton-K / DM3
launch site	Baikonur, Site 81/23
launch contractor	Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
orbit reference	Geocentric orbit
orbit regime	Geostationary orbit
orbit longitude	72° West
apsis	gee
trans band	52 transponders: 24 C-band 28 Ku-band
trans frequency	36 MHz 72 MHz (4 Ku-band)
trans coverage	North America, Greenland, Latin America
programme	SES constellation
previous mission	AMC-5
next mission	AMC-7

Rainbow 2

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