AMC-14 communications satellite for SES Americom launched on a Proton-M/Briz-M from Baikonur. The Briz-M upper stage cut off about two minutes early during its second burn after a gas-duct rupture, stranding the satellite in an unusable transfer orbit; it was later sold to the US government and raised to an inclined geosynchronous orbit using its own propellant.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.1 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 14 March 2008, 23:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-011
- Launches in 2008
- 11th of 69
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