Ekspress AM7
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- Ekspress
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Defence and Space
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Proton-M
- space tug
- Briz-M
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2015-03-18
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 200
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Ekspress-AM7 ( meaning Express-AM7) is a Russian communications satellite operated by the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC).
== Satellite description == EADS Astrium, was contracted in March 2012, which had become part of Airbus Defence and Space by the time of the satellite's launch, constructed Ekspress-AM7, which was based on the Eurostar-3000 satellite bus. The satellite has a mass of , provides 18 kilowatts to its payload, and a planned operational lifespan of 15 years. The satellite carried 62 transponders: 24 operating in the C-band of the electromagnetic spectrum, 36 in the Ku-band and 2 in the L-band. It is a replacemt for Ekspress-AM1.
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