Payload
EXPRESS-AM3
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
EXPRESS-AM3 is a Russian Satellite Communications Company payload satellite, launched on June 24, 2005 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 24, 2005 at 07:41 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton K/DM-2 →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Ekspress AM-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,157 km
- Periapsis
- 36,135 km
- Inclination
- 7.3°
- Orbital period
- 1454.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russian Satellite Communications Company
- Manufacturer
- NPO-PM/Alcatel
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 2,542 kg
- Power
- 4,200 W
- Design lifetime
- 12 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2005-023A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28707
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 25.1785 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational