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Ekspress-AM2

Names	Экспресс-АМ2 Ekspress-AM2 Express-AM2
Mission type	Communications
Operator	Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC)
COSPAR ID	2005-010A
SATCAT no.	28629
Website	eng.rscc.ru
Mission duration	12 years (planned) 11 years (achieved)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Ekspress-AM2
Spacecraft type	KAUR
Bus	MSS-2500-GSO
Manufacturer	NPO PM (bus) Alcatel Space (payload)
Launch mass	2,542 kg (5,604 lb)
Dry mass	596 kg (1,314 lb)
Power	6 kW
Start of mission
Launch date	29 March 2005, 21:31:00 UTC
Rocket	Proton-K / DM-2M
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 200/39
Contractor	Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Entered service	May 2005
End of mission
Disposal	Graveyard orbit
Deactivated	2016
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Geostationary orbit
Longitude	80° East (2005–2016)
Transponders
Band	29 transponders: 16 C-band 12 Ku-band 1 L-band
Coverage area	Russia, CIS
Ekspress constellation← Ekspress-AM1Ekspress-AM3 →

Ekspress-AM2 (Russian: Экспресс-АМ2, meaning Express-AM2) is a Russian domestic communications satellite. It belongs to the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) based in Moscow, Russia. To provide of communications services (digital television, telephony, videoconferencing, data transmission, the Internet access) and to deploy satellite networks by applying VSAT technology to Russia and its neighbors (CIS).

Satellite description

The satellite has a total of 29 transponders, was 16 C-band, 12 Ku-band and 1 L-band transponders. The Ekspress-AM2 Russian domestic communications satellite, built by Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev (NPO PM) for Kosmicheskaya Svyaz. The communications payload was built by the French company Alcatel Space.

Launch

Ekspress-AM2 was launched by Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, using a Proton-K / DM-2M launch vehicle. The launch took place at 21:31:00 UTC on 29 March 2005, from Site 200/39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Successfully deployed into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), Ekspress-AM2 raised itself into an operational geostationary orbit using its apogee motor.

Mission

Ekspress-AM2 was retired in 2016 and was moved into a graveyard orbit above the geostationary belt.

References

1. ^ "Satellite Ekspress-AM2". SatBeams. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
2. ^ "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Report. 14 March 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
3. "EXPRESS-AM2". N2YO.com. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
4. "Report # 546". Jonathan's Space Report. 14 April 2005. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
5. "Ekspress-AM2, -AM3". Gunter's Space Page. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2021.

• Ekspress satellites
• Spacecraft launched in 2005
• 2005 in Russia
• Satellites using the KAUR bus