Spacecraft Energia-100 Reference system GEO Launch date 2018 Mission type Communications satellite | Launch site Vostochny Site 1S Band Ka band 100Gbps Bus USP Operator Rostelecom | |
Manufacturer S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia Similar Kounotori 7, AngoSat 1, Progress MS‑05, Lunar Polar Hydrogen, Hispasat AG1 | ||
Energia-100 (Russian: Энергия-100) is a geostationary communications satellite built by the Russian company RSC Energia for its subsidiary Energia-Telecom (Russian: Энергия-Телеком). The whole bandwidths has been leased to the JSC RTComm.RU (Russian: АО РТКомм.РУ) subsidiary of Rostelecom. It is planned to be launched during 2018 by a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat-M from Vostochny Site 1S.
Payload
While still based on the USP Bus, the payload is one of the modern high throughput Ka band that offers 100Gbit/s of bandwidth. It has been stated that it is equivalen to 1,500 transponders of low bandwidth band.
References
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