Ekspress-AMU7

Ekspress-AMU7 (Экспресс-АМU7, meaning Express-AMU7) 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 VSAT technology to Russia. Replacement for Ekspress-A4.

Satellite description
The satellite has a total of 37 transponders, of which 16 C-band, 20 Ku-band and 1 L-band transponders. The Ekspress-AMU7 Russian domestic communications satellite, built by Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev (ISS Reshetnev) for Kosmicheskaya Svyaz. The communications payload was built by the French company Thales Alenia Space, in Italy.

Launch
Ekspress-AMU7 was launched on a Proton-M / Briz-M launch vehicle on 13 December 2021, at 12L07 UTC, from Site 200/39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

Mission
Ekspress-AMU7 was launched with Ekspress-AMU3.