Payload
EXPRESS-AMU1
OperationalPayloadGEO
EXPRESS-AMU1 is a Russian Satellite Communications Company payload satellite, launched on December 24, 2015 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 24, 2015 at 09:31 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Ekspress AMU1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,798 km
- Periapsis
- 35,775 km
- Inclination
- 0.02°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russian Satellite Communications Company
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Defense and Space
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5,700 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-082A
- NORAD catalog №
- 41191
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 19.255 m²
- Status
- Operational