|
The Russian communication satellite Ekspress-AM1 of the new generation is planned to be orbited by the Proton-K carrier rocket at 02:11, Moscow time, on October 30, the press service of the FGUP Space Communication told RIA Novosti on Friday.
"This spacecraft is Russias another step in the Federal Space Programme", the press service said.
Ekspress-AM1 is the third of the five craft of the new series Ekspress-AM. They will be made and put in the geostationary orbit before 2005.
The first satelli | Ads |  |
te, Ekspress-AM22, was launched in December 2003.
Ekspress-AM1 will be injected in the geosynchronous orbit and, upon orbital checks of its on-board systems, will begin service as part of the orbital satellite group of the Space Communication State Enterprise.
The satellite has been developed by the Krasnoyarsk-based Reshetnev Applied Mechanics Works jointly with the French company Alcatel Space.
Its warranted orbital service life is twelve years. The Ekspress-AM1 is designed for digital television and radio broadcasting, arranging channels of telephone communication, data transmission, broad-band access to Internet, development of VSAT networks, unfolding departmental and corporative networks, provision of multimedia services.
MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti)
| 
