09 June 2004 22:56
Reshetnev association to make five Express-AM satellites for
Kosmicheskaya Svyaz company
ZHELEZNOGORSK, Krasnoyarsk Territory. June 8 (Interfax) - The Reshetnev scientific and production association of
applied mechanics is implementing a contract on development and launch of five Express-AM satellites.
The Express-AM satellites are designed to provide a set of
multimedia services, including TV-broadcasting, telephone
"Currently we are developing five satellites, Express-AM1, AM2, AM3, AM22 and AM11 under the contract with the
Kosmicheskaya Svyaz company," Yevgeny Korchagin, chief of the association's projects management directorate,
supervising the Express-AM program, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
He also said that the Russian Communications Ministry and the Federal Space Agency are also clients under the
program.
communications, data transmission, access to the Internet, deployment of communications networks and so on. The
satellites are the most powerful in the type, each of them having 24-30 transponders operating in a frequency band of 54
MHz. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG AER] <> <>
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