Ekspress AM5

Ekspress-AM5
Mission type Communications
Operator FGUP
COSPAR ID 2013-077A
SATCAT № 39487
Mission duration 15 years planned
Spacecraft properties
Bus Ekspress-2000
Manufacturer ISS Reshetnev
MDA Corporation
Launch mass 3,600 kilograms (7,900 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date 26 December 2013, 10:49:56 (2013-12-26UTC10:49:56Z) UTC[1]
Rocket Proton-M/Briz-M
Launch site Baikonur 81/24[2]
Contractor Khrunichev
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Perigee 35,788 kilometres (22,238 mi)[3]
Apogee 35,798 kilometres (22,244 mi)[3]
Inclination 0.04 degrees[3]
Period 1436.13 minutes[3]
Epoch 22 January 2015, 22:13:28 UTC[3]

Ekspress-AM5 (Russian: Экспресс АМ5) is a Russian communications satellite which was launched in 2013. Part of the Ekspress series of geostationary communications satellites, it is owned and operated by the Russian State Company for Satellite Communications.[4]

References

  1. Bergin, Chris (26 December 2013). "Russian Proton-M launches Ekspress-AM5". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  2. "Carrier rocket Proton-M with Express-AM5 spacecraft to be launched from Baikonur". Voice of Russia. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "EXPRESS-AM5 Satellite details 2013-077A NORAD 39487". N2YO. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. "Express-AM5 satellite delivered to final orbit". Itar Tass. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
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