NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Yamal 401

Launch Time
Mon Dec 15, 2014 00:16 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M/Briz-M
ILS
Status: Active
Price: $65.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 10,027 kN
Payload to LEO: 21,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 6,900 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 58.18 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m
Fairing Height: 15.26 m

Mission Details

Yamal 401

Yamal 401 is a Russian communications satellite built by ISS Reshetnev for Gazprom Space Systems.

In 2010 Gazprom Space Systems replaced the contract with Thales Alenia Space to provide the Yamal-401 satellite with a contract with ISS Reshetnev to build the Yamal 401 satellite. Thales Alenia Space provided the communications payload. The satellite was launched by a Proton-M Briz-M rocket directly into GEO.

Yamal-400 satellites have a guaranteed lifetime of 15 years. Yamal-401 will be placed at a 90° E orbital slot and is equipped with 36 Ku-band and 17 C-band transponders providing the coverage zone over the whole Russian and CIS territory.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2,976.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

Site 81/24, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

2014

84th orbital launch attempt

Proton-M

86th mission
7th mission of 2014
76th successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission