Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Ekspress AM-3
Proton K/DM-2
SUCCESS
Success
Friday, June 24, 2005 · 19:41 UTC
Mission
/01The Ekspress-AM 2 and 3 series are communications satellites 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 are built by Alcatel.
Mission Type
Communications
Orbit
Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)
Probability
N/A
Status
Launch Successful
Vehicle & Pad
/02Rocket
Proton K/DM-2
Variant: K/DM-2
Launch Pad
200/39 (200L)
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
46.040° N, 63.032° E
100
Pad Launches
1240
Location Launches
114
Agency Launches
26
Orbital This Year