Ekspress-AM 5

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Launch data: Designation  39487 / 13077A Launch date  26 Dec 2013 - 10:49 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC-81/24 Launch vehicle  Proton-M/Briz-M Mission   Geostationary orbit: Perigee / Apogee  34850 x 36438 km Eccentricity   Inclination  0.1° Period  1428.5 min

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Description:

• The Ekspress-AM 5 is a communications satellites for russian domestic communication services. The lifetime of the spacecraft has been increased to 15 years. While the spacecraft itself is built by russian RSCC (Kosmicheskiya Svyaz), the communication payloads are built by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA).
• Express AM5 provides digital television and radio broadcasting, telephone, video conferencing, data transmission and Internet services. The satellite is also used for mobile communications among between the Russian president and other government leaders. Express AM5 carries 40 Ku-band, 30 C-band, 12 Ka-band and two L-band transponders. The satellite is designed for a 15-year lifetime and will be positioned in geostationary orbit at 140 degrees east longitude, covering Russia's Far East, Southeast Asia and Australia. Such an orbit allows the spacecraft to remain in a fixed location in the sky for users on the ground.

Mission details:

• Russia's new Ekspress AM-5 communications satellite was launched from Baikonur on Dec 26, 2013. AM-5 uses a Reshetnev Ekspress-2000 bus with C, Ku, Ka and L-band communications payloads developed in collaboration with the Canadian company MDA.
  The launch vehicle was a Proton-M with a Briz-M upper stage (serial numbers 93541 and 99543 (site zenite.nu).
• The Briz-M made four burns to deliver Ekspress AM-5 to a sub-geostationary orbit of around 33800 x 37800 km x 0.18 deg according to a posting on the Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum. It will use its on-board electric propulsion system (ion drive) to complete the trek to GEO.

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