Ekspress-80

Launched together with: Ekspress-103

Prime manufacturer	ISS Reshetnev (Zheleznogorsk)
Platform	Ekspress-1000N
Operator	Kosmicheskaya Svyaz'
Mass at launch	kg
Dry Mass	kg
Basic shape
Dimension (m)
Equipment	C/Ku/l-band communication payloads (Thales Alenia)
Solar array
Stabilization
Propulsion
DC power
Design lifetime

On Jul 30, 2020 Russia′s Khrunichev launched a Proton-M carrying two Ekspress communications satellites for the Russian space communications company Kosmicheskaya Svyaz'. The Briz-M upper stage made five burns on an 18 hour trip to deploy the payloads in a low-inclination supersynchronous transfer orbit. The DTB propellant tank was left in an intermediate 416 x 23275 km x 49.5 deg orbit after the third burn.
The various intermediate orbits is:
- Jul 30 2141 UTC 182 x 182 km x 51.6 deg
- Jul 30 2205 UTC 275 x 3000 km? x 50.3 deg
- Jul 31 0000 UTC 416 x 23275 km x 49.5 deg
- Jul 31 0641 UTC 450?x 54800?km x 47? deg
- Jul 31 1523 UTC 16689 x 54900 km x 0.6 deg

Ref.: #7(JR782) - update: 23.09.20