AMC 14 launch tonight

[Anole]

This is public knowledge, so it should be posted here, I do believe.
Found linked from the SES Americom site.

Who, by the way, seems to be one of our new advertizers.
Who'd 've thought... a satellite company advertizing on a SatelliteGuys forum... - :up

SES-AMERICOM's AMC-14 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Proton M rocket on Friday night.
Local time for the launch is 5:18 a.m. on Saturday 15 March 2008 -- or 23:18 GMT on Friday the 14th of March.
What that means is you can watch the launch live in the United States -- but if you're on the East Coast, you may wish to start feeding the kids at 6 o'clock.
The live webstream will be available here, or watch on on C-band: AMC-1, transponder C17, 4040 Horiz., NTSC, analog, in the clear or on DISH channel 101.

See first link at top of this post for full info.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Im guessing you dont read the homepage...

The rocket already launched.

 

[brentb636]

As far as I'm concerned, this IS the home page !


Thanks for the update , Scott. Somebody has to be grounded in reality, I guess. Glad it's not my job, though.



Brent

 

[charper1]

Is this a replacement for a bird already located in the 61.5° West orbital location?

 

[Anole]

Guess I'm just a day late and a dollar short. -

And no, I don't read the front page, I keep my nose in the FTA section almost exclusively.
If it hadn't been for the crawler on every forum page, I wouldn't have known the status of the new server, either.

 

[voomvoom]

As far as I'm concerned, this IS the home page !
Brent

You Got That Right....!!!

 

[legatebroke]

What is the time frame for it to move into testing then to its finall position?

 

[goaliebob99]

IT will take about a month to get to its final position.

 

[qwert1515]

For those of you who don't read the front page or have not checked the launch website (ILS Launch) : BREAKING NEWS!!!! Preliminary flight information indicates that the anomaly occurred during the second burn of the Breeze M upper stage. The satellite failed to reach the planned orbit.

Satelliteguys: Click here for more information.

 

[kg4ozx]

For those of you who don't read the front page or have not checked the launch website ILS Launch : BREAKING NEWS!!!! Preliminary flight information indicates that the anomaly occurred during the second burn of the Breeze M upper stage. The satellite failed to reach the planned orbit.

Click here for more information.

This was broken for me...

The basic idea is that AMC-14 didn't make it to orbit. A sad day indeed.

 

[Smith P.]

We follow it by minutes here http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-forum/128312-what-s-happening-sat-launch.html