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Ekspress AM-5 Credit: Manufacturer Image

Status: Operational 2013. First Launch: 2013-12-26. Last Launch: 2014-10-21. Number: 2 .

AM-5 used a Reshetnev Ekspress-2000 bus with C, Ku, Ka and L-band communications payloads developed in collaboration with the Canadian company MDA. The Briz-M made four burns to deliver Ekspress AM-5 to a sub-geostationary orbit of around 33,800 x 37,800 km x 0.18 deg. It used its on-board electric propulsion system (ion drive) to complete the trek to GEO.

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Ekspress AM-6 Credit: Manufacturer Image

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• Ekspress AM-5 - . Mass: 3,600 kg (7,900 lb). Nation: Russia. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: Ekspress-2000. USAF Sat Cat: 39487 . COSPAR: 2013-077A. Apogee: 35,787 km (22,236 mi). Perigee: 35,786 km (22,236 mi). Inclination: 0.0400 deg. Period: 1,436.09 min.

  AM-5 used a Reshetnev Ekspress-2000 bus with C, Ku, Ka and L-band communications payloads developed in collaboration with the Canadian company MDA. The Briz-M made four burns to deliver Ekspress AM-5 to a sub-geostationary orbit of around 33,800 x 37,800 km x 0.18 deg. It used its on-board electric propulsion system (ion drive) to complete the trek to GEO.

• Ekspress AM-6 - . Payload: EXPRESS AM-6. Mass: 3,358 kg (7,403 lb). Nation: Russia. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: Ekspress-2000. USAF Sat Cat: 40277 . COSPAR: 2014-064A. Apogee: 35,789 km (22,238 mi). Perigee: 35,783 km (22,234 mi). Inclination: 0.0200 deg. Period: 1,436.08 min.

  The final Briz-M burn was incomplete, leaving the communications satellite in an orbit with a 1373 min period - significantly below the planned orbit. Ekspress AM-6 had to reach its geosynchronous destination using extra xenon propellant from its own electric propulsion system at the cost of operational lifetime. Ekspress AM-6 orbit is 1373.2 min, 31307 x 37784 km x 0.7 deg; the Briz-M's auxiliary SOZ thrusters disposed of the stage into a 1512.4 min, 34984 x 39549 km x 1.0 deg orbit. Stationed in geosynchronous orbit at 140 deg east.

• Cosmos 2520 - . Payload: Blagovest No. 11L. Nation: Russia. Spacecraft: Ekspress-2000. USAF Sat Cat: 42907 . COSPAR: 2017-046A. Apogee: 35,793 km (22,240 mi). Perigee: 35,778 km (22,231 mi). Inclination: 0.0300 deg. Period: 1,436.04 min. See Kosmos 2520 (Blagovest 11L). ..

• Cosmos 2526 - . Payload: Blagovest No. 12L. Nation: Russia. Spacecraft: Ekspress-2000. USAF Sat Cat: 43432 . COSPAR: 2018-037A. Apogee: 35,791 km (22,239 mi). Perigee: 35,781 km (22,233 mi). Inclination: 0.0300 deg. Period: 1,436.06 min. See Kosmos 2526 (Blagovest 12L). ..

• Cosmos 2533 - . Nation: Russia. Type: Comms 1. Spacecraft: Ekspress-2000. USAF Sat Cat: 43867 . COSPAR: 2018-107A. Apogee: 35,792 km (22,240 mi). Perigee: 35,781 km (22,233 mi). Inclination: 0.0800 deg. Period: 1,436.10 min.

  See Kosmos 2533 (Blagovest 13L). Blagovest military communications satellite. Some reports suggested a problem with the final Briz-M burn, but on December 29 it was shown by US tracking in a 35421 x 35802 km x 0.2 deg orbit drifting over 77E.