Wednesday, January 16, 2002

VEP-2

2001-038B


The first H-IIA was launched from Launch Pad 1 at TNSC in Aug 2001.

VEP-2 is a cone-shaped set of Al disks on top of the H2A second stage, modelling the mass of Artemis (which was pulled from the flight at a late stage). The DRE is mounted on it. Doppler Ranging experiment is box about 0.5 x 0.4m. VEP is about 3.0m dia 0.8 high. Mass is 3100 kg.

The H-IIA stage 2 carried out a chill down experiment an hour after launch to prove capabilities for 3-burn missions.


VEP-2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2001 Aug 29 0700:00 Launch by H-IIA202  TNSC Y LP1 
  T+1:40 SRB-A 1-2 burnout 
  T+1:51 SRB-A 1-2 sep 56 km 1.6 km/s 
  T+4:20 Fairing sep 141 km 2.7 km/s 
 0706 T+6:41 MECO 
  T+6:49 St 1 sep 236 km 5.2 km/s 
  T+6:55 SEIG-1 354s 
 0712 T+12:49 SECO-1  303 x 305? x 28.1  
  T+24:58 SEIG-2 183s 
 0727  T+28:02 SECO-2  279 x 36209 x 28.1 
 0739  T+39:47 LRE sep 
 0850? Chilldown experiment 

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