Astrium will build Eutelsat’s Express-AMU1 (Eutelsat 36C) satellite. ...

Astrium will build Eutelsat’s Express-AMU1 (Eutelsat 36C) satellite. It will be launched in 2015 “to provide follow-on and expansion capacity for the EUTELSAT 36A broadcast satellite operating at 36 degrees east,” Eutelsat said in a press release (http://bit.ly/16Af4ts). The satellite will have about 70 transponders and provide coverage for broadcast services to Russia in the Ku- and Ka-bands, it said. It also will “ensure service continuity and growth for broadcast markets developed by Eutelsat in sub-Saharan Africa,” Eutelsat said.