OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2014. The Yamal 401 telecommunications spacecraft was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a cargo plane.
 
Yamal 401 was built for the Russian satellite operator, Gazprom Space Systems, by Russian spacecraft manufacturer ISS Reshetnev, using certain payload and platform components supplied by Thales Alenia Space.
 
Yamal 401, a new satellite for the Gazprom Space Systems’ orbital constellation, is designed to provide continuous communications and TV retransmission services over Europe and Asia.
 
Yamal 401 is scheduled to be launched on a Proton M / Breeze M launch vehicle from Baikonur in December this year.
 
Proton, a heavy-lift launch vehicle, is designed and mass produced by the Khrunichev Space Center.
 
The Proton launch services for the Yamal 401 mission were contracted by International Launch Services Inc. (ILS), a Russian-U.S. company.