Express-80 (satellite)

2021: Satellite launch for digital TV broadcasting and fast Internet

In mid-March 2021, the successful launch of the new Express-80 satellite, designed for digital broadcasting and high-speed Internet access, as well as for data transmission in Russia and abroad, took place. This is stated in the message of FSUE "Space Communications" (GPKS).

With the launch of a new satellite, we offer the market fundamentally new products that are most in demand today on the market: package digital broadcasting, Internet access by air and sea transport, distance education and telemedicine, "said Yury Prokhorov, acting general director of the GPKS, whose words are quoted by the company's press service.

The successful launch of the Express-80 satellite for digital TV broadcasting and fast Internet took place

According to him, the orbital location of the Express-80 spacecraft at a point of 80 degrees East above the very center of Russia allows providing communications and broadcasting services to almost all of Russia.

The Express-80 spacecraft was made by the Russian enterprise of the rocket and space industry - JSC Information Satellite Systems named after Academician M.F. Reshetnev "together with the European company Thales Alenia Space. The life of the satellite is 15 years.^[1]

2020: Satellite launch into geostationary orbit

In February 2020, the Express-80 and Express-103 satellites were delivered to the Baikonur cosmodrome and in March 2020 were to be launched in one launch on the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Breeze-M booster unit. Due to the revealed failure of the launch vehicle components, the launch was postponed indefinitely, the launch vehicle was returned to the Khrunichev State Scientific Research Center. After eliminating the marriage, the launch was scheduled for July 30, 2020, but due to the need to conduct additional inspections, it was postponed to July 31.

The Express-80 spacecraft was launched into geostationary orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome on July 31, 2020. In September, the media reported that during deployment into geostationary orbit, the Express-80 satellite was damaged as a result of a possible collision with space debris.

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