Friday, February 11, 1994

Olympus

 1989-053A


ESA's experimental heavy communications technology satellite, L-SAT, was built by British Aerospace. The L-SAT program was renamed Olympus prior to launch. The satellite provided experimental direct broadcast TV and commercial services, and carried out 30/20 GHz propagation studies and tests of Italian inter-city communications.


Olympus 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1989 Jul 12  0014:03  Launch by Ariane 3  CSG ELA1 
  T+0:07 PAL burn 
  T+0:40 PAL sep 
  T+2:23 St 1 sep 
  T+2:26 St 2 MES 
  T+3:51 Fairing sep
  T+4:34 St 2 sep 
 0018:42 T+4:39 St 3 MES 
 0030:44 T+16:41 St 3 MECO 
 0034:06 T+20:03 St 3 sep  200 x 36084 x 6.2 (PK) 
 0052  Perth acquires signal 
 0120  Solar arrays deploy 
1989 Jul 13  1230  Apogee burn 103.5 min 
 1413  Apogee burn complete 
1989 Jul 13    1381.97 33304 x 36136 x 0.2 GEO 29.3W+14.1E 
1989 Jul 15  1054 Station acq, reverse drift, 50 min 
1989 Jul 16    1381.33 33303 x 36112 x 0.2 GEO 11.8E+14.3E 
1989 Jul 20   braking  1437.71 35522 x 36113 x 0.3 GEO 1.7W+0.4W 
1989 Jul 25   Station acq burn 
1989 Aug 3   mv in  1435.88 35754 x 35810 x 0.1 GEO 19.0W 
1989 Aug 25    1436.15 35776 x 35799 x 0.0 GEO 19.1W 
1989 Sep   Payload commissioning  GEO 19W 
1989 Oct   Spacecraft commissioning from ESOC 
1989 Oct 10   Control to Fucino for op mission 
1990 Jun 9    1436.10 35771 x 35801 x 0.0 GEO 19.0W 
1991 May 26    1436.13 35775 x 35799 x 0.0 GEO 19.0W 
1991 May 29   Attitude control failed 
1991 Jun 2    1415.92 34994 x 35786 x 0.1 GEO 1.4E+5.1E 
1991 Jun 17    1415.87 34994 x 35784 x 0.1 GEO 77.3E+5.1E 
1991 Jul 3    1415.93 34992 x 35789 x 0.1 GEO 163.4E+5.1E 
1991 Jul 15    1415.89 34991 x 35788 x 0.2 GEO 141.0W+5.1W 
1991 Jul 31   Spacecraft recovered 
1991 Aug 1   Drifting  1414.81 34926 x 35811 x 0.2 GEO 49.0W+5.2E 
1991 Aug 2   Burn 7m/s E  GEO +2.9/d 
1991 Aug 6   Inclination burn, 15 m/s   
1991 Aug 9   Burn  1424.16 35300 x 35805 x 0.2 GEO 22.8W+3.0E 
 
1991 Aug 13   Burn to keep in 0.1deg box  GEO 19W 
1991 Aug 14   Payload recommissioning  1435.72 35769 x 35789 x 0.1 GEO 19.0W 
1991 Sep 29    1436.06 35775 x 35796 x 0.2 GEO 19.0W 
1992 Oct 28    1436.10 35776 x 35796 x 0.5 GEO 18.9W 
1993 Aug 8    1436.13 35759 x 35814 x 1.2 GEO 19.1W 
1993 Aug 12   Lost attitude control, safemode 
1993 Aug 23    1436.17 35729 x 35847 x 0.6 GEO 19.3W

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