Baikonur, work began on schedule the first launch of the day in accordance with the decision of the State Commission, today at 4:30 am Moscow time at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the process filling the site (which hosted the refueling propellants tanks low pressure booster "Briz-M") took place on the export of missiles Booster (ROP) "Proton-M" spacecraft (SC) "Express-AM6" on launch pad 81. Currently, "Proton-M" with "Express-AM6" is set to CP, it is brought farm maintenance. Starter calculations of rocket-space industry began work on schedule the first launch day. Start "Proton-M" upper stage "Breeze-M" and "Express-AM6" is scheduled at 19:09 MSK on 21 October. "Express-AM6" commissioned by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Satellite Communications" platform-based heavy class "Express 2000" and is designed to provide a wide range of communications and broadcasting services on the territory of Russia. Active lifetime of the spacecraft is 15 years, and the payload includes 11 antennas, transponder 72 C-, Ku-, Ka- and L-band frequencies. carrier rocket "Proton" and the upper stage "Briz-M" developed and serially produced FSUE "State Research and Production Space Center of MV Khrunichev. " Upgraded "Proton-M", equipped with the upper stage "Breeze-M", is able to deliver to geosynchronous transfer orbit a payload of more than 6 tons. Press office Space Center "Southern"
