Saturday, August 12, 1995

Suisei

 1985-073A


The Planet A spacecraft was named Suisei (`Comet',

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once it was launched into solar orbit on a trajectory to pass close to comet 1P/Halley.

Mass of Suisei was 135 kg full 125 kg dry. Size is 1.40m dia 0.70m high. (1.7m high with dish; 2.4m from top of dish to bottom of MGA).

Escape trajectory was 11.374 km/s. The launch was a direct ascent trajectory with M3B and KM-P burns at stage 2 apogee. M-3B had an Isp of 292.9s, estimated dV 4.393 km/s KM-P was 1.23m long 0.79m dia with mass 461 kg full, 41 kg empty. It had 32 kN thrust for 36s with Isp of 287.4s, implying a delta-V of 3.4 km/s.

Suisei passed 150000 km from Halley. KM-P passed 200000 km from Halley.

Deep space tracking station Usuda.


Suisei 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1985 Aug 18  2333  Launch by Mu-3S2-2  KASC  
  T+0:40 SOB sep 
  T+1:24 Stage 1 cutoff, sep 
  T+1:26 Stage 2 start 
  T+2:36 Stage 2 cutoff, coast 
  T+2:35 Fairing 
 2336 T+3:15 Stage 3 spinup 
 2337 T+4:00 Stage 2 sep 
  2 Marman band clamps sep 
 2337 T+4:02 Stage 3 burn 87s 
 2338 T+5:35 M3B rocket cutoff 
 2339 T+5:54 M3B sep  212 x 1373 x 31.8 
 2339 T+5:56 KM-P burn 44s 
 2339 T+6:40 KM-P cutoff, escape  250 x Inf x 31.2 
 2340 T+8:11 KM-P sep 
  2355  RCS despin 128rpm to 29rpm 
1985 Aug 19  0005  RCS spin axis orient 
 0855  Pass EL1:4 
   0.67 x 1.01 AU x 0.9 
  RCS despin to 6 rpm 
1985 Aug 24  0640?  Pass L1 
1985 Nov 14   TCM-1 12m/s 
1986 Mar 8  1312?  Pass 151000 km from P/Halley 
1987 Apr 5  2240  2m/s Begin 65m/s TCM 
 2346  2.0m/s 
1987 Apr 6  0346  5.5m/s 
 2154  5.3m/s 
1987 Apr 7  0149  5.2m/s 
 0359  5.0m/s 
 2257  4.9m/s 
1987 Apr 8  0118  4.9m/s 
 0449  4.8m/s 
 2147  4.7m/s 
 2345 4.6 m/s 
1987 Apr 9  0326  4.5m/s 
 0541  4.4m/s 
1987 Apr 10 0336  4.43m/s 
 0443  1.5m/s 
1987 Jul 18   Occulted by Sun 
1991 Feb 22   Attitude control fuel expended, shut down 
1992 Aug 20  Earth encounter 900000 km  
1994 Jan 1   solar orbit  0.796 x 1.034 AU x 1.72 deg 

Payload:

  • UV Ly Alpha camera

  • Solar wind analyser

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