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Ekspress AM8

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Operator
  
FGUP

SATCAT no.
  
40895

Bus
  
Ekspress-1000NTB

Launch mass
  
2,100 kg

Launch date
  
14 September 2015

Mission type
  
Communications satellite

COSPAR ID
  
2015-048A

Mission duration
  
15 years planned

Rocket
  
Proton-M/Blok DM-03

Launch mass
  
2,100 kg

Launch site
  
Baikonur Cosmodrome

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Manufacturers
  
Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev, Thales Alenia Space

Similar
  
Ekspress, Ekspress AM7, Ekspress AM6, Ekspress AM5, Ekspress AT2

Ekspress AM8 (Russian: Экспресс АМ8) is a Russian communications satellite which was launched in 2015. Part of the Ekspress series of geostationary communications satellites, it is owned and operated by the Russian State Company for Satellite Communications.

References

Ekspress AM8 Wikipedia