Express AM33
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Ekspress-AM33 (, meaning Express-AM33) is a Russian domestic communications satellite. It belongs to the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) based in Moscow, Russia. To provide of communications services (digital television, telephony, videoconferencing, data transmission, the Internet access, presidential and governmental mobile communications) and to deploy satellite networks by applying Very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) technology to Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, and the Middle East.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Express AM33 is referenced by 5 other articles, and connects out to Ekspress, Kazakhstan and Moscow.
It sits within the topics 2008 in Russia, Ekspress satellites and Satellites using the KAUR bus.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- communications satellite
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Proton-M
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2008-01-28
- space tug
- Briz-M
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 200
- launch contractor
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
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- Satellite description
- Launch
- Mission
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Ekspress-AM33 (, meaning Express-AM33) is a Russian domestic communications satellite. It belongs to the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) based in Moscow, Russia. To provide of communications services (digital television, telephony, videoconferencing, data transmission, the Internet access, presidential and governmental mobile communications) and to deploy satellite networks by applying Very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) technology to Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, and the Middle East.
== Satellite description == The satellite has a total of 17 transponders, was 10 C-band, 6 Ku-band and 1 L-band transponders. The Ekspress-AM33 Russian domestic communications satellite, built by Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev (NPO PM) for Kosmicheskaya Svyaz. The communications payload was built by the French company Thales Alenia Space.
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