Echostar 9

 2003-034A

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Echostar IX is a C/Ku LS-1300 satellite. Loral Skynet bought Echostar IX's C-band payload, and refers to it as Telstar 13. Loral Skynet was to operate the satellite at 121W but sold its interest in 2003 to Intelsat as Intelsat Americas 13, renamed Galaxy 23 in 2007.

Echostar 9
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2003 Aug 8	0331:00	Launch by Zenit-3SL
		T+2:29 st 1 sep
		T+3:12 Fairing
		T+8:50 St 2 sep	-2222 x 244 x 0
	0339:59	T+8:59 DM MES-1
	0344:34	T+13:34 DM MECO-1	180 x 913 x 0
	0420:03	T+49:03 MES-2
	0426:07	T+55:07 MECO-2	756 x 35929 x 0
	0436:47	T+1:05:47 DM Sep
		T+6:12:19 Apogee	760 x 35786 x 0
2003 Aug 8			642.43 713 x 35855 x 0.03
2003 Aug 9			826.85 9780 x 35826 x 0.06
2003 Aug 12			1230.58 27231 x 36090 x 0.55
2003 Aug 13			1390.08 33972 x 35789 x 0.06
2003 Aug 14			1430.46 35411 x 35936 x 0.1 GEO 123.9W+1.4E
2003 Aug 16			1434.49 35555 x 35951 x 0.1 GEO 124.0W+0.4E
2003 Oct 13			1436.07 35776 x 35795 x 0.1 GEO 121.0W
2006 Aug 8			1436.07 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 121.0W

Project Constellation Pocket Space Guide

 https://welib.org/md5/31a98940bc58d81693405541d0a04ef1

Astra 1KR

 2006-012A

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SES Astra satellite.

Replacement for Astra 1K, lost in a launch failure. 1KR is an LM A2100 bus.

Launch by Atlas V 411 AV-008. Mass 4332 kg launch, 2732 kg at BOL on orbit.

Astra 1KR
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2006 Apr 20	2027:00	Launch by Atlas V AV-008	CC SLC41
		T+2:25 SRB sep
		T+4:03 Atlas MECO
		T+4:09 Atlas sep
		T+4:19 MES-1
		T+4:27 Fairing sep
	2044:56	T+17:56 MECO-1	167 x 22442 x 24.83
	2210:55	T+1:43:55 MES-2
	2212	T+1:45:21 MECO-2
	2215	T+1:48:10 AV-008 Centaur sep
2006 Apr 21			766.07 6470 x 36240 x 23.8
2006 Apr 23	1210?	LAM-1	803.09 8704 x 35777 x 18.0
2006 Apr 24	0400?	LAM-2	889.64 12747 x 35778 x 12.0
2006 Apr 26	0720?	LAM-3	1058.66 20283 x 35772 x 12.0
2006 Apr 27	1800?	LAM-4	1301.41 30445 x 35769 x 1.5
2006 Apr 29	0835?	LAM-5
2006 Apr 30			1433.29 35695 x 35767 x 0.2
2006 May 4			1436.04 35780 x 35790 x 0.2 GEO 3.30E
2006 May 31		move out of GEO
2006 Jun 7			1431.63 35696 x 35701 x 0.1 GEO 13.1E+1.1E/d
2006 Jun 13			1429.81 35630 x 35696 x 0.1 GEO 18.7E+1.6E/d
2006 Jun 19		Operational

Foton 2007

 2007-040A

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Total mass 6535 kg. Launch Soyuz-U No 98; spacecraft was 34KS No. Ts15000-15.

The Fotino tether was meant to deploy to 30 km, but release happened after the initial deploy to 8.5 km.

Fotino is attached to the center of the forward face of the Foton battery module.

Deorbit burn 2007-09-26 07:23:43 UTC over circa 15E 26S.

Re-entry vehicle landed 2007-09-26 07:58 UTC after 11.87d. Coordinates: planned 50.6 deg N, 66.3 deg E, cca. 170km south of town Kustanay Actual 55.7E 41.6N estimated.

Foton changed perigee by 1.05 km at tether sep.

Expected Fotino landing at 66.2E 50.6N.

Foton
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2007 Sep 14	1100	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB LC1
	1108	Blok-I sep
2007 Sep 19			258 x 280 x 62.9
2007 Sep 25	0208	YES-2 power-up
	0446:33	Fotino/MASS deploy
	0545?	Stage 1 complete at 3378m length
	0621:12	Begin stage 2
	0632	Computer problem
	0710:19	Tether deploy to 31.705 km completed
		Pendulum swing
	0722:37	Swing through Rbar
	0722:37	MASS/Fotino release
	0730?	Fotino reentry
	0757	nominal landing time
2007 Sep 26
	0500?	battery pack sep
	0723:39	Deorbit burn
	0758	Landed 140 km S Kustanai

Payload:

• Kontur-L bio payload (mice, sand eel) (IMBP RAN)

• Biopan, life science samples (ESA/KT)

• OMEGAHAB, U. Erlangen/U. Hohenheim - aquarium, larval cichlid fish Oreochromis mossambicus; algae

• POLIZON-Experiments; crystal growth samples for Polizon-M furnace

• Biokont-M, TsNIIMash biological samples

• Vibrokon-M, Liquid flow processes

• Plasmida/ Retsentor/ Ulitka/ Ulkadka, IMBP RAN experiments in space biology

• GradFlex, liquid physics (ESA)

• Telesupport, ESA telemetry for experiments on board

• SCCO, diffusion experiments (ESA/CSA)

• Biobox, bio and radiation expts (ESA)

• Biocon, space biology expts (ASI)

• Eristo/Osteo, bio samples (ESA/CSA) bone growth and yeast incubators

• Aquahab (DLR/ESA)

• Stone (ESA exterior sample)

• Granada, protein crystal growth (ESA)

• Freqbone (ESA/Belgium)

• DataLogger (ESA/TssKB)

• Dimae, accelerometer (ESA)

• Teplo, heat pipe experiments

• YES-2