Payload
EXPRESS-AM44
OperationalPayloadGEO
EXPRESS-AM44 is a Russian Satellite Communications Company payload satellite, launched on February 11, 2009 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 11, 2009 at 12:03 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Ekspress AM-44 & MD-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,804 km
- Periapsis
- 35,770 km
- Inclination
- 3.45°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russian Satellite Communications Company
- Manufacturer
- NPO-PM/Thales Alenia Space
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 2,532 kg
- Design lifetime
- 12 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 33595
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 54.0998 m²
- Status
- Operational