Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Yamal-402 is a Russian geostationary communications satellite. It was launched on 8 December 2012 13:13:43 UTC from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was built by Thales Alenia Space and is based around the Spacebus 4000C3 satellite bus. It is equipped with 46 J band (IEEE Ku band) transponders. It has a design life of 15 years but reducing to 11 years expected after launch partial failure.