AMC-7
AMC-7 is a commercial broadcast communications satellite owned by SES Americom. Launched on September 14, 2000, from Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, AMC-7 provides C band coverage to North America, Hawaii, the Caribbean islands and most of Mexico, and is located in a geostationary orbit over the Pacific Ocean east of Hawaii. The satellite is primarily used for cable television programming distribution.[1]
NASA TV is broadcast from this satellite on transponder 18C, as well as from its sister satellite, AMC-6, on transponder 17C.[2]
References
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ses-amc7was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Dunbar, Brian (2007-09-06). "Digital NASA TV". NASA.gov. Retrieved 2008-06-03.