Satellite · NORAD 24713 · COSPAR 1997-002A
AMC-2 (GE-2)
- Operator SES
- Constellation SES GEO fleet
- Country Luxembourg
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
10.99°
Period
1.0 d
1,447.6 min
Perigee
35,984km
Apogee
36,041km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 15.2 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- SES GEO fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- AMC-2 (GE-2)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- SES
- SATCAT owner code
- SES · SES
- Country
- Luxembourg LU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 30 Jan 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-002
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE DEB [SPELDA]24716DebrisDecayed
- NAHUEL 1A24714PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 44L R/B24715Rocket bodyDecayed
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 24713
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-002A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ4HG4ZXGXM2K47RATZ
- Canonical slug
- amc-2-ge-2-24713
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.