- Communications satellite
- AMC-14
- NORAD 32708
- 2008-011A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Bismarck Sea
Orbit ends over the Bismarck Sea
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches AMC 14 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.
Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.
No brightness has been published for AMC 14, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.
Seeing it
There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is AMC 14?
At 6:45:46 PM UTC AMC 14 was over the Pacific Ocean (24.1° N, 143.7° E), 35,767 km up, moving at 3.08 km/s and in sunlight.
What is AMC 14?
A communications satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Mar 14, 2008.
Can I see AMC 14?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for AMC 14, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- SES Americom
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems/Sunnyvale
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 4.1 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:45 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:45 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 24.1° N, 143.7° E
- Altitude
- 35,767 km
- Speed
- 3.08 km/s (11,070 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In sunlight until 1:59 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 24.2°
- Orbital period
- 1,434 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,597 to 35,897 km
- In shadow
- 54 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,940 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 12:31 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 12:31 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for AMC 14, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to AMC 14 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.
Launched with
AMC 14 shares its launch, 2008-011, with 59 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMC 14 | 35,597 to 35,897 km | 1,434 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2008 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
| Hotbird 13F | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.5 t | 2022 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 12:31 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "AMC-14",
"OBJECT_ID": "2008-011A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T12:31:38.602848",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00415922,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00356666,
"INCLINATION": 24.1718,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 18.784,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 355.7074,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 2.3804,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 32708,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 6960,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000255,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}