Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said earlier that the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 telecommunications satellites was postponed to December 12
MOSCOW, November 23. /tass/. Specialists of the M. V. Khrunichev Center eliminated the remark identified earlier on the Briz-M upper stage, which will be used to launch the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 spacecraft into target orbits. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of Roscosmos.
"The instrument equipment of the upper stage has been replaced in the assembly and testing building, its electrical tests have been completed. In the assembly hall of the launch vehicle there is a ready-made "package" of three Proton-M stages for docking with the space head," the message says.
Earlier, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 telecommunications satellites was postponed from December 6 to December 12 due to the need to refine the upper stage.
Previously, these satellites were supposed to be launched on a Proton-M carrier rocket in 2020. In September last year, the General Director of JSC "Information Satellite Systems named after Academician M. F. Reshetnev" Nikolay Testoyedov in an interview with TASS reported that the production of the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 satellites is delayed due to the late delivery of the payload for these devices from Italy in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. In December last year, Rogozin said that the launch of satellites was postponed to the end of 2021. In mid-November, Roscosmos announced plans to launch them on December 6.
