Proton-K/DM-2M | Ekspress AM-1

Name: Proton-K/DM-2M | Ekspress AM-1
Start: 2004-10-29T22:11:00Z
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

The Ekspress-AM 1 is a communications satellite for russian domestic communication services. The lifetime of the spacecraft has been increased to 12 years. While the spacecraft itself is built by russian RSCC (Kosmicheskiya Svyaz), the communication payloads is built by NEC.

Mission Details

Launch date: October 29, 2004 at 10:11 PM UTC
Launch vehicle: Proton-K/DM-2M
Operator: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission type: Communications