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Satellite · NORAD 25516 · COSPAR 1998-063B

AMC-5 (GE-5)

UnknownPayloadGEOCommunications derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

11.59°

Period

1.0 d

1,449.6 min

Perigee

36,042km

Apogee

36,059km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 13 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
9.3 m²
Constellation membership derived
SES GEO fleet via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • AMC-5 (GE-5)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SES
SATCAT owner code
SES · SES
Country
Luxembourg LU

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
28 Oct 1998
COSPAR launch id
1998-063
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 3

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
25516
COSPAR / international designator
1998-063B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQ95R9Y8N3H7XFHPTEP
Canonical slug
amc-5-ge-5-25516

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.