NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Ekspress-AM7

Launch Time
Wed Mar 18, 2015 22:04 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M/Briz-M
Roscosmos
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

Ekspress-AM7

The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) has in March 2012 selected EADS Astrium to build the Ekspress-AM 7 communications satellite.

The satellite will operate at 40° east and will carry 36 Ku-band, 24 C-band and two L-band transponders as areplacemt for Ekspress-AM 1. It uses Astrium’s Eurostar-3000 satellite bus and provides 16 kilowatts to its payload at the end of a planned 15-year service life. It weighs 5,720 kilograms at launch.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 5,720.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

Site 200/39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

2015

13th orbital launch attempt

Proton-M

89th mission
2nd mission of 2015
79th successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission