Proton | Ekspress AM-3
Status: Success | Launched: Jun 24, 2005 19:41 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (Government)
- Rocket: Proton K/DM-2 — Proton / UR-500 family
Mission
The Ekspress-AM 2 and 3 series are communications satellites for russian domestic communication services. The lifetime of the spacecraft has been increased to 12 years. While the spacecraft itself is built by russian RSCC (Kosmicheskiya Svyaz), the communication payloads are built by Alcatel.
- Type: Communications
- Orbit: Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)
Launch Site
- Pad: 200/39 (200L)
- Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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