EXPRESS AM7

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EXPRESS AM7 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 40505

Int'l Code: 2015-012A

Perigee: 35,778.8 km

Apogee: 35,807.5 km

Inclination: 0.0 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42164 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: March 18, 2015
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

EXPRESS AM7 is a communications satellite designed to beam television programming, broadband connectivity, and other services to users across Europe, Russia, Africa and India. The craft is based on the Airbus Eurostar E3000 satellite platform. Express AM7's operating post in geostationary orbit will be at 40 degrees east longitude, where the satellite's velocity will match the speed of Earth's rotation. It will hover above a fixed spot on the equator over Kenya, giving the spacecraft's 80 C-band, Ku-band and L-band transponders coverage from the United Kingdom, to South Africa, to India. The satellite can provide television and radio broadcasts, broadband access, multimedia, data, telephony and mobile communications services, according to the Russian Satellite Communications Co., Russia's state-owned civilian telecom satellite operator and Express AM7's owner.