Saturday, December 28, 2002
Ekran 2001
2001-014A
The final 11F647M Ekran-M was launched on the first Proton-M 8K82KM No 535-01, with Briz-M No. 88503 (14S43 No 3L) upper stage. It was launched under the ownership of GP Kosmicheskaya Svyaz.
Space command swapped international designations with Mars Odyssey a couple of times (2001-13A vs 14A).
| Ekran-M | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 Apr 7 | 0347 | Launch by Proton-M | KB LC81/24 |
| T+1:56 Stage 2 MES | |||
| T+2:01 Stage 1 sep | |||
| T+5:32 Stage 2 MECO | |||
| T+5:33 Stage 2 sep | |||
| T+5:35 Stage 3 MES | |||
| T+5:44 PLF sep | |||
| T+9:27 Stage 3 MECO | |||
| T+9:37 Stage 3 VECO | |||
| 0356 | T+9:42 Stage 3 sep | ||
| 2:30 coast | |||
| 0358? | T+12:00? Briz MES1 5:20 | ||
| 0404 | T+17:20? Briz MECO1, EPO | 175 x 175 x 52? | |
| 45-51 min coast | |||
| 0442? | T+0:55? Briz MES2, perigee 1, 24 min? | ||
| 0505? | T+1h:20? Briz MECO2 | ||
| 0505 | Briz perigee at equator | ||
| 0510? | EPT Torus sep | 918 x 35611 x 48.0 | |
| 5.2hr coast? | |||
| 1025? | Briz MES3, apogee 3 at equator | ||
| 1027? | T+10h? Briz MECO3, GEO | ||
| 1031:19s | Briz-M sep | ||
| 2001 Apr 17 | 1423.31 35393 x 35678 x 2.0 GEO 82.5E+3E/d | ||
| 2001 Apr 29 | 1435.92 35773 x 35792 x 2.0 GEO 98.9E | ||
| 2001 Jun 24 | 1436.36 35764 x 35818 x 1.8 GEO 98.9E | ||
Thursday, December 26, 2002
Wednesday, December 25, 2002
Progress M-46
2002-033A
ISS mission 8P used spacecraft No. 246, Progress M-46. Mass was 7290 kg. It carried 2580 kg of cargo including 825 kg of fuel, as well as 50 kg of oxygen and 1455 kg of dry cargo.
Launch plan was to spend a day stationkeeping 30 km behind the station to study problems with the Kurs system.
By Aug 23 278 kg had been transferred from P to SM, leaving 432 kg on P.
After undocking, M46 remained in orbit to carry out an Earth photography experiment.
| Progress M-46 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 Jun 26 | 0536:30 | Launch by Soyuz-U | KB |
| 0540 | Stage 3 burn | ||
| 0545:20 | T+8:50 Stage 3 MECO | ||
| 0545:30? | Stage 3 sep | 193 x 245 x 51.6 (RKA) | |
| 0915:40s | DV1A 28m/s 70s | 222 x 289 x 51.6 (RKA) | |
| 0947:02s | DV1B 10m/s 26s | 255 x 297 x 51.6 (RKA) | |
| 2002 Jun 27 | 0659:19s | DV2 2m/s 6s | 262 x 297 x 51.6 (RKA) |
| 2002 Jun 28 | 0412:47s | DV3A 30m/s 74s | 263 x 398 x 51.6(RKA) |
| 0458:05s | DV3B 39m/s 96s | 392 x 407 x 51.6 (RKA) | |
| 0720 | Rev 33-34 Kurs tests complete | ||
| 0952:29s | DV4 0.2m/s 1.8s | 392 x 407 x 51.6 | |
| 2002 Jun 29 | 0352 | DV for approach | |
| 0545:08s | Approach phase | ||
| 0623 | Docking with Zvezda | ||
| 0930s | HO | ||
| 2002 Aug 1 | Burn, raise apogee by 14 km | ||
| 2002 Sep 11 | 2310s | Reboost 1.6m/s, 121 kg of prop | |
| 2002 Sep 24 | 1358:49 | Undocked from Zvezda | |
| 1658 | TCM | ||
| Begin photo mission | |||
| 2002 Oct 14 | 0934:00 | Deorbit 42.5N 54.4E | |
| 0937:05 | Deorbit complete | ||
| 1010:53 | Entry 21.3S 163.4E | ||
| 1021:59 | Impact in POR 3000 km SE NZ, 42.0S 138.2W | ||
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Inmarsat 302
1996-053A
The second Inmarsat III was launched in Sep 1996 by Proton from Baykonur. This Lockheed Martin Telecommunications Series 4000 satellite did not carry an apogee motor. It is the Atlantic Ocean Region East satellite. The satellite will replaced AOR E satellite Inmarsat II F2 at 15.5W. The launch was part of a contract between Inmarsat and the KB Salyut (by the time of launch, part of Krunichev). Launch mass was 1130 kg full.
| Inmarsat III G2 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 Sep 6 | 1737:38 | Launch by Proton | KB |
| 1739 | Stage 2 TIG T+2:04 | ||
| 1739 | Stage 1 sep (T+2:07) | ||
| 1742 | Stage 2 cutoff (T+5:30) | ||
| 1742 | Stage 2 sep (T+5:35) | ||
| 1742 | Fairing sep (T+5:44) | ||
| 1746 | Stage 3 sep (T+9:49) | ||
| 1747 | Interstage sep (T+10:43) | 222 x 235 x 51.6 | |
| 1850 | Blok DM burn 1 (T+1:13:51) | ||
| 1857 | Blok DM MECO (T+1:20:19) | 230? x 36000? x 51.5 | |
| 1996 Sep 7 | 0009 | SOZ burn | |
| 0014 | Blok DM burn 2 (T+6:40:31) | ||
| 1996 Sep 7 | 0032 | Blok-DM sep (T+6:55:32) | |
| 1996 Sep 7 | 1461.43 36250 x 36312 x 2.6 GEO 79.1E+6.3W | ||
| 1996 Oct 9 | 1437.78 35803 x 35836 x 2.7 GEO 14.6W+0.4W | ||
| 1996 Oct 10 | 1438.05 35803 x 35846 x 2.7 GEO 15.0W+0.5W | ||
| 1996 Dec 21 | 1436.12 35766 x 35807 x 2.5 GEO 15.6W | ||
| 1998 Mar 24 | 1436.09 35763 x 35809 x 1.6 GEO 15.5W | ||
Soyuz 35
1980-027A
After the aborted EO-1 flight and the lonely EO-3 flight, Valeriy Ryumin tried again with EO-4. His commander this time was Leonid Popov. They took off aboard 7K-T 11F615A8 No. 51, which was named Soyuz-35 on reaching orbit on 1980 Apr 9. The Soviet-Hungarian crew of Valeriy Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas took over the ship in June 1980 and landed it 140 km SE of Dzezkazgan on Jun 3. The landing was the roughest ever, at 30gs, because an altimeter failure resulted in the soft-landing rockets not firing.
| Soyuz-35 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 Apr 9 | 1338:22 | Launch by Soyuz-U | KB |
| 1340 | Blok BVGD sep | ||
| 1343 | Blok A sep | ||
| 1347 | Blok I MECO | ||
| 1347 | Blok-I sep | 88.9 197 x 247 x 51.6 | |
| 1980 Apr 10 | 1516 | Docked with Salyut-6 -X | |
| 1635 | EO-4 crew to Salyut | ||
| 1980 Jun 3 | 0920 | EP crew (Kubasov, Farkas) to Soyuz | |
| 1147 | Undocked -X | ||
| 1416 | Deorbit | ||
| 1420? | DO CO | ||
| 1437 | BO and PAO sep from SA | ||
| 1442? | Entry | ||
| 1506:23 | SA landed 140 km SE of Dzezkazgan | ||
Monday, December 23, 2002
Galaxy 4
1993-039A
Owned by Hughes Communications Inc., Galaxy 4H was a hybrid satellite, carrying both C and Ku band transponders. It was a three-axis stabilized HS-601 unlike the earlier Galaxy craft, and had a mass of 2700 kg. Galaxy 4H was intended for television distribution and private communications networks.
The satellite had a solar array span of 26.5m. Mass was 2988 kg at orbital injection, 1692 kg on station, and 1323 kg empty. The Ariane stage was not tracked and probably reentred on first orbit.
In May 1998 a chip in the on board control processor failed, sending the spacecraft spinning and putting 90 percent of the pagers in the USA out of action. PanAmSat deactivated the communications payload and put the satellite in safemode. The Ku-band customers were transferred to Galaxy III-R, while Galaxy VI was moved from 74W to 99W to backup the C-band capacity. An investigation suggested an electrical short in a tin-plated relay in the processor was responsible.
| Galaxy IVH | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 Jun 25 | 0018:00 | Launch by Ariane 42P | |
| 0021 | L-33 Stage 2 TIG (T+3:30) | ||
| 0022 | Type 01 Fairing sep (T+4:35) | ||
| 0023 | L-33 Stage 2 sep (T+5:30) | ||
| 0023 | H-10+ TIG (T+5:43) | ||
| 0036 | H-10+ MECO (T+18:11) | ||
| 0038 | H10+ stage sep | ||
| Orbit insertion | 200 x 27668 x 7.0 | ||
| 0040 | H10+ sep burn, end of mission | ||
| 486.84 293 x 27949 x 7.1 | |||
| 1993 Jun 26 | 0000? | PVA burn 1 | 548.33 232 x 31394 x 7.5 |
| 1993 Jun 27 | 1200? | PVA burn 2 | 633.46 218 x 35890 x 7.0 |
| 1993 Jun 30 | 0030? | AKM-1 burn at 12th apogee | 1069.56 20627 x 35905 x 1.1 |
| 1993 Jun 30 | 1073.95 20860 x 35861 x 1.1 | ||
| 1993 Jul 2? | AKM-2 burn | ||
| 1993 Jul 3? | AKM-3 burn | 1437.13 35689 x 35924 x 0.1 GEO 88.8W+0.3W | |
| 1993 Jul 5? | Solar panels deploy | ||
| 1993 Jul | (s) | GEO 99W? | |
| 1993 Oct 21 | 1429.52 35531 x 35784 x 0.3 GEO 99.0W+1.6E | ||
| 1993 Nov 29 | 1436.08 35774 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 99.0W | ||
| 1994 Aug 28 | 1436.11 35776 x 35797 x 0.0 GEO 99.0W | ||
| 1997 Mar 19 | 1436.12 35776 x 35797 x 0.0 GEO 99.0W | ||
| 1997 May 16 | To Panamsat | GEO 99W | |
| 1998 May 19 | 2230 | Attitude control failed | |
| 1998 May 27 | 1436.11 35777 x 35795 x 0.1 GEO 99.0W | ||
| 1998 May 27 | Orbit raised | 1446.53 35885 x 36096 x 0.1 | |
| 1999 Jun? | To Hughes Comms Galaxy as HGS-4 | ||
| 1999 Aug | Reverse drift to stop at 147W | ||
| 1999 Aug 17 | 1444.64 35893 x 36013 x 0.9 | ||
| 1999 Aug 21 | 1432.77 35548 x 35894 x 0.9 GEO 163.7W | ||
| 1999 Oct 16 | 1436.06 35654 x 35917 x 1.1 GEO 148.0W | ||
| 2000 Feb 22 | 1436.14 35611 x 35963 x 1.4 GEO 148.9W | ||