Energia-100

Energia-100 (Russian: Энергия-100) is a planned geostationary communications satellite built by the Russian company RSC Energia for its subsidiary Energia-Telecom (Russian: Энергия-Телеком).^[1] The whole bandwidths has been leased to the JSC RTComm.RU (Russian: АО РТКомм.РУ) subsidiary of Rostelecom.^[2] Initially, it was planned to be launched in 2018 by a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.^[3]

Energia-100 (Энергия-100)

Mission type	Communication
Operator	Rostelecom
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Energia-100
Bus	USP Bus
Manufacturer	RSC Energia
Start of mission
Launch date	Planned: TBD
Rocket	Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat
Launch site	Vostochny Cosmodrome
Contractor	Roscosmos
Orbital parameters
Reference system	GEO
Transponders
Band	Ka band 100 Gbps

Payload

While still based on the USP Bus, the payload is one of the high throughput K_a band that offers 100 Gbit/s of bandwidth. It has been stated that it is equivalen to 1,500 transponders of low bandwidth band.^[1][3]

See also

• Spaceflight portal

• High-throughput satellite – Type of communication satellite.
• ViaSat-1 – A high bandwidth K_a band satellite.
• EchoStar XVII – A high bandwidth K_a band satellite.