Ekspress AM8

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Ekspress-AM8
Mission type Communications
Operator FGUP
COSPAR ID 2015-048A
SATCAT № 40895
Mission duration 15 years planned
Spacecraft properties
Bus Ekspress-1000NTB
Manufacturer ISS Reshetnev
Thales Alenia Space
Launch mass 2,100 kilograms (4,600 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date 14 September 2015, 19:00:00 (2015-09-14UTC19Z) UTC[1]
Rocket Proton-M/Blok DM-03
Launch site Baikonur 81/24
Contractor Khrunichev
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Longitude 14° West
Epoch Planned
Transponders
Band 24 C band
12 Ku band
2 L band

Ekspress AM8 (Russian: Экспресс АМ8) is a Russian communications satellite which was launched in 2015. Part of the Ekspress series of geostationary communications satellites, it is owned and operated by the Russian State Company for Satellite Communications.

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