In February 2009, Gazprom Space Systems announced a contract with Thales Alenia Space for two satellites: Yamal-401 and Yamal-402.[3] This was the first time a foreign supplier would build a satellite for the domestic Russian market. After much lobby from Russian industry, the contract for the bus and integration of Yamal-401 was cancelled and awarded to ISS Reshetnev, but Thales was allowed to keep the payload supply.[3][4][5]
On 10 December 2012, specialists from Thales Alenia Space carried out maneuvers to bring the satellite into its designated orbit after a premature separation from Briz-M.[10][11] On 15 December 2012, Yamal-402 was taken to its planned geostationary orbit at the altitude of 36,000 km following a series of four adjustment operations.[12]
Mission
The satellite lost 4 years of fuel to compensate for lower than expected orbit injection.[3]
^ abcd"Yamal 402". Gunter's Space Page. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
^Pillet, Nicolas. "Yamal-400: le succès français" [Yamal-400 the French success] (in French). Kosmonavtika. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
