AMC-9
AMC-9 is a commercial broadcast communications satellite owned by SES World Skies, part of SES S.A. Launched on 6 June 2003, from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on the 300th launch of a Proton family rocket, AMC-9 is a hybrid C-band/Ku-band satellite located at 83° West, covering the United States and Mexico. It is owned and operated by SES World Skies, formerly SES Americom.
On 17 June 2017 at approximately 07:10 UTC, AMC-9 experienced an anomaly on-orbit, the operator lost control and contact with the satellite, and it appeared to begin breaking apart. SES claims that it re-established contact with the satellite on 1 July 2017, that it poses no risk of a collision with other active satellites, and that by the end of the day following the anomaly, most of AMC-9's traffic had been transferred to other SES satellites.
