The Ekspress-AM 1 is a communications satellite for russian domestic communication services. The lifetime of the spacecraft has been increased to 12 years. While the spacecraft itself is built by russian RSCC (Kosmicheskiya Svyaz), the communication payloads is built by NEC.

Mission type: Communications · Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Rocket: Proton-K/DM-2M · Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center