Launch SuccessfulKhrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Proton: Ekspress AM-3

Name: Proton: Ekspress AM-3
Start: 2005-06-24T19:41:00Z
End: 2005-06-24T19:41:00Z
Location: 200/39 (200L)

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, 24 June 2005

Mission Data

🇷🇺Khrunichev State Research and Production Space CenterEst. 1916

Launch VehicleProton K/DM-2

Vehicle FamilyProton / UR-500

Vehicle Record103 of 110 launches (93.6%)

Provider TypeGovernment

Agency Record178 successes / 15 failures (92%)

Success Streak4 consecutive

Mission TypeCommunications

Target OrbitGeostationary Orbit

Launch Pad200/39 (200L)

Location🇰🇿 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan KAZ

Orbital Launches This Year#26

Agency Launches This Year#4

Launches From This Pad167

Launches From This Site1,565

Status Note

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Launch Site

200/39 (200L) · 46.0400°N 63.0321°E

Launch data from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs.