The press service of Roscosmos reported on the successful output of the satellite communications and broadcasting “Express-AMU” on the target orbit. At 9:43 Moscow time, in accordance with the flight program, the telecommunications device is separated from the upper stage “breeze-M” and the management has passed to the company “Space communication”, by order of which was produced the satellite and its launch.
We will remind, the rocket “proton-M” with the upper stage “breeze-M” and satellite “Express-AMA” was launched from Baikonur on 25 December 2015 at 00:31 Moscow time.
“Express EMU” will be used for television and broadband data in the European part of Russia and sub-Saharan Africa. It is designed for active existence for 15 years.