Proton-M/Briz-M – Ekspress-AMU4 – Baikonur – 2026

[Salo]

https://twitter.com/anik1982space/status/1214971171340529664

Roscosmos plans to order Proton-M this year to launch Express-AMU4 and transport it to Baikonur next year. At the same time, the satellite itself has not yet been ordered. "Breeze-M" is not ordered, but in 2021 it also goes to Baikonur, which means it is borrowed.

[dated January 8, 2020]

[Stan Black]

Изготовление и поставка ракеты-носителя «Протон-М» для запуска космического аппарата «Экспресс-АМУ4»
Изготовление и поставка ракеты-носителя «Союз-2-1а» для запуска космических аппаратов «Канопус-В» № 7, № 8

https://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/orderplan/pg2020/plan-position.html?plan-number=202009950000002001&revision-id=&position-number=

Manufacturing and delivery of the Proton-M launch vehicle for launching the Express-AMU4 spacecraft.
Manufacturing and delivery of the Soyuz-2-1a launch vehicle for the launch of the Kanopus-V spacecraft No. 7, No. 8.

Изготовление и поставка головного обтекателя 14С75 для запуска космического аппарата «Экспресс-АМУ4» 250 000 000 ₽
Изготовление и поставка ракеты-носителя «Протон-М» для запуска космического аппарата «Экспресс-АМУ4» 2 299 200 000 ₽
Транспортировка разгонного блока «Бриз-М» для запуска космического аппарата «Экспресс-АМУ4» 32 000 000 ₽
Транспортировка ракеты-носителя «Протон-М» с головным обтекателем для запуска космического аппарата «Экспресс-АМУ4» 33 800 000 ₽

Production and supply 14S75 fairing for launch of the spacecraft "Express AMU4" 250000000 ₽
manufacture and delivery of the launch vehicle "Proton-M" for spacecraft launch "Express AMU4" 2299200000 ₽
Transporting booster "Briz- M "for launching the Express-AMU4 spacecraft 32,000,000 ₽
Transportation of the Proton-M launch vehicle with a nose fairing for launching the Express-AMU4 spacecraft 33,800,000 ₽

[Steven Pietrobon]

Here's the translation.

"Roscosmos plans to order Proton-M this year to launch the Express-AMU4 and transport it to Baikonur next year. At the same time, the satellite itself has not yet been ordered. "Breeze-M" is not ordered, but in 2021 it also goes to Baikonur - it means borrowing."

"Manufacturing and delivery of the 14C75 head fairing for the launch of the Express-AMU4 spacecraft 250,000,000
Production and delivery of the Proton-M launch vehicle for the launch of the Express-AMU4 spacecraft 2,299,200,000
Transporting the Breeze-M booster to launch the Express-AMU4 spacecraft 32,000,000
Transporting the Proton-M launch vehicle with a head fairing to launch the Express-AMU4 spacecraft 33,800,000"

[Stan Black]

Proton-M №93706
[source]

[Yiosie]

Ekspress-AMU4 is expected to launch in 2023:

https://rspectr.com/novosti/60271/sputniki-ekspress-amu3-i-ekspress-amu7-zapustyat-v-2021-godu [dated Oct. 8, 2020]

Google translate:

Two Russian telecommunications spacecraft (SC) "Express-AMU3" and "Express-AMU7" will be launched in 2021 in the interests of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Space Communication" (GP CS). The specialists have also started to work out the appearance of the Express-AMU4 satellite.

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Yuri Prokhorov also said that experts have begun working on the appearance of the Express-AMU4 satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2023.

[Stan Black]

Briz-M №99575
[source]

[Yiosie]

Belated update: satellite development contract signed in July, launch now scheduled for 2026.

The manufacturer of "Glonass" and the RSCC will be engaged in the manufacture of the "Ekspress-AMU4" satellite [dated Jul. 19]

Google translate:

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Space Communications" and JSC "Information Satellite Systems" named after Academician M. F. Reshetnev "began the development of a new promising communication satellite of the GP KS "Ekspress-AMU4". The corresponding agreement was signed by the General Director of the GP KS Alexey Volin and the General Director of JSC "ISS named after academician M.F. Reshetnev" Yevgeny Nesterov on July 19 in the city of Zheleznogorsk," the report says.

The Ekspress-AMU4 apparatus will provide satellite communication and broadcasting services in the European part of Russia, as well as in the countries of the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, South America and part of North America. The entire space platform of the satellite will consist entirely of devices of domestic production, and the period of active existence of the Express-AMU4 satellite will be at least 15 years. The launch of the spacecraft is scheduled for 2026.