Ekspress AM5

Express AM5 is a commercial communication satellite of the Russian federal satellite communications company (Russian Satellite Communications Company ) from the Express satellite series.

He was taken on December 26, 2013 at 14:49 UTC with a Proton-M/Bris-MTrägerrakete- from the Baikonur launch site in an Earth orbit. 9 hours and 22 minutes after launch, the satellite reached geostationary transfer orbit. From this it is to reach its final geostationary position with the aid of electric engines. This is the first time for a built in Russia satellites that this maneuver is performed with the aid of an electric drive. The main contractor for the construction of the satellite, the Russian space company Reschetnjow Informational Satellite Systems, based in Zheleznogorsk northeast of Krasnoyarsk. Its construction was decided on 22 October 2005 and 12 August 2009 ordered the RSCC satellites at Reschetnjow. On 27 October 2009 began concrete design work, a preliminary engineering design was on 1 June 2010 and 22 May 2011 announced Reschetnjow that the basic structure of the payload module has been completed and successes of the installation of communication technology at MacDonald Dettwiler in Canada, which the transponders and antennas deliver. On 24 August 2012 MDA delivered back the payload module and then a total of ten antennas for the satellite. In October 2013 Previous tests have been completed.

The three -axis stabilized satellite is 12 Ka-band, 40 Ku-band and 2 L- band transponders equipped with 30 C-band, and should allow the position 140 ° East of mobile communications for Russian government and the country's president deploy, digital video, phone and data services for Russian regions, radiate digital radio and television programs and implement VSAT network connections. It was built based on the new satellite bus Express 2000 by Reschetnjow and has a design life of 15 years.