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Status of Ekspress AM4 unclear after Briz M failure

Submit on Thursday, August 18th, 2011 22:59

Russia’s Ekspress AM4 satellite has (at best) ended up in a lower-than-expected orbit after an apparent failure of the Proton-M rocket’s Briz-M upper stage. At the time of this writing, no details were available regarding the satellite’s status.
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