{"id":78992,"date":"2013-12-26T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T10:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russias-express-am5-satellite-launched-from-baikonur-cosmodrome\/"},"modified":"2013-12-26T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T10:35:19","slug":"russias-express-am5-satellite-launched-from-baikonur-cosmodrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russias-express-am5-satellite-launched-from-baikonur-cosmodrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Express AM5 Satellite Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-26-13] The <b>ISS-Reshetnev<\/b>-built Express AM5 satellite was successfully launched from platform 81 at Russia\u2019s Baikonur Cosmodrome onboard a Proton M rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Express AM5 is the first satellite built around ISS-Reshetnev\u2019s heavy-class Express-2000 platform. Positioned in GEO at 140 degrees east, the satellite will carry 30 transponders for C-band, 40 Ku-band transponders, 12-Ka band, and 2-L band transponders. The spacecraft is intended to provide digital television and radio broadcasting services across Russia, mobile presidential and government communications, multimedia services, and VSAT network base solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Express AM5 was manufactured under a contract with <b>Russian Satellite Communications Company <\/b>(RSCC), the national operator, and has an expected lifetime of 15 years. The 3400-kg satellite carries <b>MDA<\/b>\u2018s repeater communication module and complete antenna subsystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-26-13] The ISS-Reshetnev-built Express AM5 satellite was successfully launched from platform 81 at Russia\u2019s Baikonur Cosmodrome onboard a Proton M rocket. Express AM5 is the first satellite built around ISS-Reshetnev\u2019s heavy-class Express-2000 platform. Positioned in GEO at 140 degrees east, the satellite will carry 30 transponders for C-band, 40 Ku-band transponders, 12-Ka band, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}