EXPRESS-AMU1

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EXPRESS-AMU1 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 41191

Int'l Code: 2015-082A

Perigee: 35,782.1 km

Apogee: 35,804.1 km

Inclination: 0.0 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42164 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: December 24, 2015
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

EXPRESS-AMU1 is a geostationary communications satellite. Based on Airbus Defense and Space's Eurostar E3000 satellite platform, Express-AMU1 is designed for a 15-year mission and carries up to 70 transponders in Ku-band and Ka-band. The satellite will settle into an operating point at 36 degrees east longitude. Express-AMU1 will provide television and radio broadcasts, including direct-to-home and broadband programming, to the European part of Russia's territory. Express-AMU1/Eutelsat 36C will eventually replace and expand on services from Eutelsat 36A, a 15-year-old satellite that launched aboard Lockheed Martin's Atlas 3 rocket in May 2000 on the first flight of the Russian RD-180 engine that went on to power United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket fleet.

1 41191U 15082A   25182.50305450  .00000159  00000-0  00000-0 0  9997
2 41191   0.0245  75.2329 0002603  30.6565  31.0912  1.00274071 34750

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC