Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Pad: 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
The Ekspress-AMU 3 and Ekspress-AMU 7 are two communications satellite for russian domestic communication services. While the spacecraft themselves are built by russian RSCC (Kosmicheskiya Svyaz), the communication payloads are built by Thales Alenia Space.
Both satellites are based on the Ekspress-1000 bus and feature 16 Ku-, 1 L- and 20 C-band transponders. They will be located at 96.5° and 145° East respectively.
