Ekspress-AM3 (, meaning Express-AM3) is a retired Russian domestic communications satellite. It belongs to Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC). It provided communications services (digital television, telephony, videoconferencing, data transmission, Internet access) and deployed satellite networks by applying VSAT technology to Russia and its neighbors (CIS).
The satellite has 29 transponders: 16 C-band, 12 Ku-band and 1 L-band transponders. It was built by Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev (NPO PM) for Kosmicheskaya Svyaz. The communications payload was built by French company Alcatel Space.
Ekspress-AM3 was launched by Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, using a Proton-K / Blok DM-2M launch vehicle. The launch took place at 19:41:00 UTC on 24 June 2005, from Site 200/39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It deployed into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) and raised itself into an operational geostationary orbit using its apogee motor.