"Hybrid C/Ku-band satellite. 20 Ku-band, 18 C-band transponders. Broadcast, Internet, business; Ku-band tailored to broadband for Boeing Connexion; Pacific region."
Believed to be replacement system for Strela-3 store and dump communications.
Meteorological spacecraft; intended primarily to support the National Meteorologicla Services (NMS) of Member States; planned system of 3 satellites.