Mission type | Communications |
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Operator | FGUP |
COSPAR ID | 2015-048A |
SATCAT no. | 40895 |
Mission duration | 15 years planned |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | Ekspress-1000NTB |
Manufacturer | ISS Reshetnev Thales Alenia Space |
Launch mass | 2,100 kilograms (4,600 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 14 September 2015, 19:00:00[1] | UTC
Rocket | Proton-M/Blok DM-03 |
Launch site | Baikonur 81/24 |
Contractor | Khrunichev |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Longitude | 14° West |
Epoch | Planned |
Transponders | |
Band | 24 C band 12 Ku band 2 L band |
Ekspress AM8 (Russian: Экспресс АМ8) is a Russian communications satellite which was launched in 2015. Part of the Ekspress series of geostationary communications satellites, it is owned and operated by the Russian State Company for Satellite Communications.