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

Name: KhSC Proton-K/DM-2M Ekspress AM-1
Start: 2004-10-29T22:11:00.000Z
Location: 200/39 (200L)

Proton-K/DM-2M

Status

Success

Date

29 OCT 2004

22:11

Launch Provider

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Launch Pad

200/39 (200L)

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Mission Overview

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.

Rocket

Proton-K/DM-2M

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

The Proton-K was a Russian, previously Soviet, carrier rocket derived from the earlier Proton. It was built by Khrunichev, and launched from sites 81 and 200 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Height

59 m

Diameter

4.15 m

Launch Mass

712 T

Thrust

8,847 kN