2004 · Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Ekspress AM-1
successProton-K/DM-2M | Ekspress AM-1
The Ekspress-AM 1 is a communications satellite 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 is built by NEC.
Overview
- Date / time
- October 29, 2004 at 10:11 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L)
- Mission
- Ekspress AM-1
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Orbit