Saturday, March 25, 2000

Dumsat

 2000-015A


Dummy satellite for Soyuz-Fregat test launch ST-08, the Cluster II Mission Validation Flight. The satellite represents the mass center of gravity and stiffness properties of a stack of two Cluster II satellites. Mass is 2382 kg. It was built by Aerospatiale Matra.

The Blok I falls in the Sea of Okhotsk delivering the 7749 kg RBF/Dumsat stack to suborbital flight. Fregat (RBF, Razgonniy blok Fregat) makes two burns to elliptical orbit. The payload spinup and separation commanding is tested, but the payload remains attached to Fregat.


Dumsat 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2000 Mar 20  1828:30 Launch  KB LC31 
  T+1:58 Blok BVGD sep 
  T+3:06 GO sep 
  T+4:47 Blok A sep 
  T+5:21 KO interstage sep 
  Blok I burn 
 1837:15 T+8:45? MECO 
 1837:19 T+8:49 Blok I sep  -1200? x 220?  
  T+8:54? Fregat SOZ burn 195s 0.53 km/s or 0.47 km/s 
  T+9:49 Fregat MES-1 2:47 
 1841:06 T+12:36 Fregat MECO 1  202 x 226 x 64.9  
 1846  Blok I reentry? 
 1946:03 T+1:17:33 Fregat MES-2, 9:06  
 1955:09 Fregat MECO-2  242 x 18000 x 64.9

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