Payload
EXPRESS-AM8
OperationalPayloadGEO
EXPRESS-AM8 is a Russian Satellite Communications Company payload satellite, launched on September 14, 2015 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 14, 2015 at 07:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Blok DM-03 →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,787 km
- Periapsis
- 35,786 km
- Inclination
- 0.02°
- Orbital period
- 1436.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russian Satellite Communications Company
- Manufacturer
- ISS Reshetnev
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 2,100 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-048A
- NORAD catalog №
- 40895
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 44.8226 m²
- Status
- Operational