Ekspress-AMU3

Ekspress-AMU3
Names	Экспресс-АМU3; Ekspress-AMU3; Express-AMU3
Mission type	Communications
Operator	RSCC
COSPAR ID	2021-123A
SATCAT no.	50001
Website	https://eng.rscc.ru/
Mission duration	15 years (planned); 2 years, 6 months, 2 days (in progress)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Ekspress-AMU3
Spacecraft type	Ekspress
Bus	Ekspress-1000N
Manufacturer	ISS Reshetnev (bus); Thales Alenia Space (payload)
Launch mass	2,150 kg (4,740 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date	13 December 2021, 12:07 UTC
Rocket	Proton-M / Briz-M
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 200/39
Contractor	Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Entered service	4 May 2022
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Geostationary orbit
Longitude	103° East
Transponders
Band	17-31 transponders:; 7 C-band; 8-22 Ku-band; 2 L-band
Coverage area	Russia
	Ekspress constellation ← Ekspress-80 Ekspress-AMU7 →

Ekspress-AMU3 (Russian: Экспресс-АМU3, meaning Express-AMU3) is a Russian domestic communications satellite. It belongs to the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) based in Moscow, Russia. To provide of communications services (digital television, telephony, videoconferencing, data transmission, the Internet access, presidential and governmental mobile communications) and to deploy satellite networks by applying VSAT technology to Russia. Replacement for Ekspress-AM3.^[2]

Satellite description

The satellite has 7 C-band transponders and 2 L-band transponders, while the architecture for the Ku-band is reconfigurable allowing either 8 or 22 active transponders.^[3] The Ekspress-AMU3 Russian domestic communications satellite, built by Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev (ISS Reshetnev) for Kosmicheskaya Svyaz. The communications payload was built by the French company Thales Alenia Space, in Italy.

Launch

Ekspress-AMU3 was launched on a Proton-M / Briz-M launch vehicle on 13 December 2021, at 12:07 UTC, from Site 200/39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.^[4]

Mission

Ekspress-AMU3 was launched with Ekspress-AMU7.

References

^ "Ekspress-AMU3, -AMU7". Gunter's Space Page. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
^ "Russian rocket deploys Express comsats into high-altitude orbit". Spaceflight Now. 14 December 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
^ "Запуск космических аппаратов "Экспресс АМУ-3" и "Экспресс АМУ-7"" [Launch of the spacecraft "Express AMU-3" and "Express AMU-7"]. Roscosmos. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
^ "Спутники "Экспресс-АМУ3" и "Экспресс-АМУ7" запустят 8 ноября" [The satellites "Ekspress-AMU3" and "Ekspress-AMU7" will be launched on November 8] (in Russian). TASS. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.

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[Gunter-1] "Ekspress-AMU3, -AMU7". Gunter's Space Page. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2021.

[SFN20211214-2] "Russian rocket deploys Express comsats into high-altitude orbit". Spaceflight Now. 14 December 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.

[3] "Запуск космических аппаратов "Экспресс АМУ-3" и "Экспресс АМУ-7"" [Launch of the spacecraft "Express AMU-3" and "Express AMU-7"]. Roscosmos. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

[4] "Спутники "Экспресс-АМУ3" и "Экспресс-АМУ7" запустят 8 ноября" [The satellites "Ekspress-AMU3" and "Ekspress-AMU7" will be launched on November 8] (in Russian). TASS. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.

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v t e Ekspress satellites
List of Ekspress satellites
Ekspress	11L 12L
Ekspress-A	A1 A1R A2 A3
Ekspress-AM	AM1 AM2 AM3 AM4 AM4R AM5 AM6 AM7 AM8 AM11 AM22 AM33 AM44 AMU1 AMU3 AMU7
Ekspress-AT	AT1 AT2
Ekspress-MD	MD1 MD2

v t e ← 2020 Orbital launches in 2021 2022 →
January	Türksat 5A PICS 1, PICS 2, Q-PACE, TechEdSat-7 Tiantong-1 03 Starlink V1.0-L16 (60 satellites) Starlink v1.0 R1 (10 satellites), ION-SCV 002 (Flock-4s × 8, SpaceBEE × 12), Capella 3, Capella 4, ICEYE × 3, Hawk × 3, Astrocast × 5, Flock-4s × 40, HYPSO-1, Kepler × 8, Lemur-2 × 8, PTD-1, SpaceBEE × 24 Yaogan 31-02 (3 satellites)
February	Kosmos 2549 / Lotos-S1 №4 Starlink V1.0-L18 (60 satellites) TJS 6 Progress MS-16 Starlink V1.0-L19 (60 satellites) Cygnus NG-15 (MMSAT-1, GuaraniSat-1, Maya-2, OPUSAT-II, RSP-01, STARS-EC, WARP-01) Yaogan 31-03 (3 satellites) Amazônia-1, SpaceBEE × 12
March	Starlink V1.0-L17 (60 satellites) Starlink V1.0-L20 (60 satellites) Shiyan 9 Yaogan 31-04 (3 satellites) Starlink V1.0-L21 (60 satellites) CAS500-1, Suisen / Fukui Prefectural Satellite, Kepler 6, Kepler 7 Photon Pathstone, BlackSky Global 9 Starlink V1.0-L22 (60 satellites) OneWeb L5 (36 satellites) Gaofen 12-02
April	Starlink V1.0-L23 (60 satellites) Shiyan 6-03 Soyuz MS-18 SpaceX Crew-2 OneWeb L6 (36 satellites) USA-314 / KH-11 18 Pléiades-Neo 3, Lemur-2 AMANDA-SVANTE, Lemur-2 SPECIAL K Tianhe Starlink V1.0-L24 (60 satellites) Yaogan 34
May	Starlink V1.0-L25 (60 satellites) Yaogan 30-08 (3 satellites) Starlink V1.0-L27 (60 satellites) Starlink V1.0-L26 (52 satellites), Capella 6 USA-315 / SBIRS-GEO 5 HaiYang-2D Starlink V1.0-L28 (60 satellites) Tianzhou 2 OneWeb L7 (36 satellites)
June	Fengyun 4B SpaceX CRS-22 SXM-8 USA-316, USA-317, USA-318 Shenzhou 12 USA-319 / GPS IIIA-05 Yaogan 30-09 (3 satellites) Kosmos 2550 / Pion-NKS №1 Progress MS-17 Brik-II, STORK-4, STORK-5 Starlink V1.0-R2 (3 satellites), ION-SCV 003 (SPARTAN), SHERPA FX2 (Lynk 05, Astrocast × 5, Lemur-2 × 3, SpaceBEE × 12), SHERPA LTE1 (KSF1 × 4), Capella 5, ICEYE × 4, Hawk × 3, ÑuSat × 4, Lemur-2 × 3, LINCS A, LINCS B, SpaceBEE × 12, SpaceBEE NZ × 4, Tiger-2, TROPICS Pathfinder
July	OneWeb L8 (36 satellites) Jilin-1 Kuanfu-01B, Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D x 3 Fengyun-3E Tianlian I-05 Yaogan 30-10 (3 satellites) Nauka (European Robotic Arm) Eutelsat Quantum, Star One D2
August	Jilin-1 Mofang-01A† ChinaSat 2E Cygnus NG-16 EOS-03 / GISAT-1† Pléiades Neo 4 OneWeb L9 (34 satellites) TJS-7 SpaceX CRS-23 (Maya-3, Maya-4)
September	Gaofen 5-02 ChinaSat 9B Kosmos 2551 / EO MKA №1 Starlink G2-1 (51 satellites) OneWeb L10 (34 satellites) Inspiration4 Tianzhou 3 Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D Shiyan 10 Landsat 9, CUTE
October	Soyuz MS-19 OneWeb L11 (36 satellites) CHASE Shenzhou 13 Lucy Shijian 21 SES-17, Syracuse 4A QZS-1R Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F Progress MS-18
November	RAISE-2, HIBARI, Z-Sat, DRUMS, TeikyoSat-4, ASTERISC, ARICA, NanoDragon, KOSEN-1 SpaceX Crew-3 CERES x 3 DART (LICIACube) Progress M-UM (Prichal) Yaogan 32-2 (2 satellites) Yaogan 35 (3 satellites)
December	Starlink 24 (48 satellites) Soyuz MS-20 IXPE Ekspress-AMU3 Ekspress-AMU7 Starlink 25 (52 satellites) Türksat 5B SpaceX CRS-24 Inmarsat-6 F1 James Webb Space Telescope
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).

Spacecraft properties
Names	Экспресс-АМU3 Ekspress-AMU3 Express-AMU3

Mission type	Communications
Operator	RSCC
COSPAR ID	2021-123A
SATCAT no.	50001
Website	https://eng.rscc.ru/
Mission duration	15 years (planned) 2 years, 6 months, 2 days (in progress)


Spacecraft	Ekspress-AMU3
Spacecraft type	Ekspress
Bus	Ekspress-1000N
Manufacturer	ISS Reshetnev (bus) Thales Alenia Space (payload)
Launch mass	2,150 kg (4,740 lb)


Start of mission
Launch date	13 December 2021, 12:07 UTC
Rocket	Proton-M / Briz-M
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 200/39
Contractor	Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Entered service	4 May 2022


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit^[1]
Regime	Geostationary orbit
Longitude	103° East


Transponders
Band	17-31 transponders: 7 C-band 8-22 Ku-band 2 L-band
Coverage area	Russia

Ekspress constellation ← Ekspress-80 Ekspress-AMU7 →

Satellite description

Launch

Mission

See also

References