On Monday, October 18, 2021, the spacecraft “Escpress-AMU3” and “Express-AMU7” arrived at the Baikonur cosmode. They were delivered to the airport “Extreme” by the An-124 airport.
Sports Center Sports Center (branch of the center of exploitation of land-based space infrastructure facilities, is part of the Roskosmos State Corporation) performed their unloading and transported to the Baikonur cosmodrome platform. The next stage of technological events – receiving products and their autonomous preparation in the assembly and test case.
Start of the Proton-M launch vehicle with an overclocking block “Breeze-M” and telecommunication spacecraft “Escpress-AMU3” and “Express-AMU7” is scheduled for December from the starting complex of the Baikonur cosmodrome.
Satellites of the Express series are manufactured by order of the Russian satellite telecommunications operator FSUE “Space Communications” in the interests of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. These spacecraft are intended to ensure a wide range of communication services and broadcasting in Russia, ensuring fixed and mobile communications, provision of broadband services, broadband high-speed access to information resources and other applications.