Success
Ekspress AM-3
Communications
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center(KhSC)Government
Proton K/DM-2
Direct-GEOorbit
The Ekspress-AM 2 and 3 series are communications satellites for russian domestic communication services. The lifetime of the spacecraft has been increased to 12 years. While the spacecraft itself is built by russian RSCC (Kosmicheskiya Svyaz), the communication payloads are built by Alcatel.
Friday, June 24, 2005 at 7:41 PM
Mission details
Orbital Attempt
#4,720
KhSC Mission
#114
Pad Launch
#100
Location Launch
#1,240
Designator
2005-023
Launch Window
NET
Jun 24, 2005, 7:41 PM
Schedule Changes
1 update
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur.
Timezone
Asia/Qyzylorda
Local Launch Time
Jun 25, 2005, 1:41 AM
Total Launches
1,563
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
45.9650, 63.3050
Proton K/DM-2 Specs
Reusable
No
Maiden Flight
1982
Fastest Turnaround
6d 23h
Total Launches
110
Successful
103
Failed
7
Consecutive Success
16
Maiden flight: Oct 12, 1982
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center is a Moscow-based producer of spacecraft and space-launch systems, including the Proton and Rokot rockets and is currently developing the Angara rocket family. The Proton launch vehicle launches from Baikonur and Rokot launches from Baikonur and Plesetsk. Angara will launch from Plesetsk and Vostochny.
Founded
1916
Administrator
Director: Andrey Vladimirovich Kalinovskiy
Total Launches
193
Successful
178
Failed
15
Pending
0
Consecutive Success
4