ISS-Reshetnev offers next-generation comsats

The Zheleznogorsk-based ISS-Reshetnev company, Russia’s leading satellite manufacturer, offers the common satellite platforms Express-1000H and Express-2000, which can be used for the creation of next-generation telecommunications satellites. Express-1000H is intended for medium-class satellites weighing up to 1,700 kg, and Express-2000 is designed for heavy-class spacecraft weighing over 3.5 tons.
During its 50-year history ISS-Reshetnev has built more than 1,200 spacecraft, including 200 telecommunications satellites. Now the company builds modular telecommunications spacecraft. A modern satellite is made up of two modules — a service module (the satellite platform) and a payload module. The key advantages of modular design include reduced assembly times, lower production costs, higher quality and reliability of the spacecraft. In this program ISS-Reshetnev cooperates with a number of leading foreign companies including Thales Alenia Space, Saft, Sodern, Aeroflex, and Actel.
The Express-1000H platform has already been approved for the AMOS-5 and Telkom-3 satellites under construction for Israel’s Space-Communication Ltd. and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia. This platform is also intended for the Yamal-300K telecommunications spacecraft ordered by Russia’s Gazprom Space Systems company.
The heavy-class Express-2000 platform will be used for the Express-AM5 and Express-AM6 satellites manufactured for the Russian national operator RSCC. Both spacecraft are to join the Russian comsat constellation in 2012. Each satellite will carry over 70 transponders in the C-, Ka-, Ku- и L-bands. With the payload power of no less than 14kW, Express-AM5 and Express-AM6 are expected to become the most powerful Russian telecommunications satellites. Express-2000 will also be used for another communications and TV broadcasting satellite — Yamal-401, ordered by Gazprom Space Systems and expected to be orbited in 2012-13.