Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Pad: 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
Express-AMU1 is high-capacity communications satellite which will provide coverage of the European part of the Russian Federation in Ku and Ka bands. Stationed at 36 degrees east in Geostationary Orbit the 5700kg craft will be equipped with up to 70 transponders. The satellite is powered by 2 solar arrays and has an expected lifetime of 15 years.
