Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
TacSat 2
2006-058A
AFRL's JWS-D1 (Joint Warfighting Space - Demonstrator 1) or TacSat-2, also called Roadrunner, will use a NGMB (Next Generation Multifunctional Bus) from the cancelled TechSat-21 program, built by MicroSat systems/Littleton.
Launch by Minotaur from WI (transferred from Falcon 1) Spacecraft is box-cylinder + 2 panels, 370 kg. Estimate 1.7m long 1.0m dia 5.5?m span. Launch Nov 2006. Piggyback will be Genesat-1.
Program is to demonstrate stored state to orbit in 1 week (Rapid Call Up Experiment), with autonomous on-orbit commissioning on 1 day, and to demonstrate tactical command and control of the satellite from a mobile location as well as demo a high resolution imager and a system to determine the position of a radio emitting source and image it on the same pass.
A signals intelligence experiment was not immediately activated because of bureaucratic objections from NSA.
The Tacsat 2 bus was later named SN-200 by Sierra Nevada.
| Tacsat 2 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Dec 16 | 1200:00 | Launch by Minotaur | WI MARS LA0B |
| T+1:01 St 1 sep | |||
| T+1:18 Skirt sep | |||
| T+2:13 St 2 sep | |||
| T+2:15 St 3 burn | |||
| T+2:23 61-inch Fairing sep | |||
| T+3:29 St 3 burnout | |||
| T+7:41 St 3 sep | |||
| 1207 | T+7:52 St 4 burn | ||
| 1209 | T+9:00 St 4 burnout | ||
| 1211 | T+11:00 St 4 sep | ||
| 1220 | T+20:58 Genesat 1 sep | ||
| 2007 Dec 21 | end of ops | ||
Payload:
- ECI Enhanced Commercial Imager; 0.51m telescope; High res visible imager (1m) pan/3-color.
- ROPE RoadRunner On board Processing Experiment
- CDL Tactical Common Data Link radio system
- TIE Target indicator experiment
- OOCE Autonomous on-orbit checkout system experiment
- HET BHT-200 Hall Effect thruster
- ISC Inertial Stellar Compass (Draper lab); NASA ST6 mission
- SEI Specific Emitter Identification, Radio emission geolocation experiment (NRL)
- ATE Autonomous Tasking Experiment
- LPT Low Power Transceiver
- IGOR Integrated GPS Occultation Receiver
- ADS AFGL-705 Atmospheric Density Specification (ADS)
ADS consisted of two complementary experiments to characterize the neutral wind of the upper atmosphere.
- ACME (Anemometer Cross-track Measurement Experiment). ACME measured the cross-track component of the very rarefied atmosphere at the orbital altitude of 350 km; it required precise pointing knowledge to remove the spacecraft in-track velocity component from its measurement. ACME was made by the University of Texas at Dallas, TX.
- ADMS (Absolute Density Mass Spectrometer). ADMS measured the atomic mass of the prevailing species in the wind in the range from 1 to 50. ADMS was developed at AFRL, Hanscom AFB, MA.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Koronas-F
2001-032A
Koronas (Complex orbital Near Earth obs. of solar activity). The Koronas F satellite was led by FIAN (Lebedev) and carried a UV/X-ray solar study payload. Mass was 2260 kg. The satellite was AUOS-SM-KF.
| Koronas F | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 Jul 31 | 0800:00 | Launch | |
| 0802 | T+2:00 St 1 sep | ||
| 0803 | T+3:31 Fairing | ||
| 0804 | T+4:30 St 2 MECO | ||
| 0804 | T+4:37 St 2 sep | ||
| 0805 | T+5:20 S5M burn 1 | ||
| 0807 | T+7:04 S5M MECO-1 | 170? x 500? x 82.5 | |
| 0850 | T+50:00 S5M MES-2 | ||
| 0850:09 | T+50:09 S5M MECO-2 | ||
| 0850:39 | T+50:39 min S5M sep | 94.78 486 x 529 x 82.5 | |
| 2002 Nov 7 | Malfunction in transmitter, reduced data flow | ||
| 2005 May | End of operations? | ||
| 2005 Dec 6 | Reentered | ||
Payload:
- DIFOS Solar opt/uv total-disk variability (IZMIRAN)
- SORS Solar radio bursts (IZMIRAN), two crossed-antenna radiometers
- ZENIT Solar corona study 7500-8500 A, 1' res at 2 Rsun(IZMIRAN)
- SUFR Solar UV luminosity variability 1-1300A (Fedorov Inst)
- VUSS UV L-alpha resonance line, flux in 50A bandpass (Fedorov Inst)
- DIAGENESS Solar X active regions 5", 1s, 1-5 keV and 2-160 keV (Poland/IZMIRAN)
- RESIK Solar X crystal spectrometer (Poland/IZIMIRAN)
- IRIS Solar flare X-ray spectrometer 2-200 keV (Ioffe PTI)
- HELIKON Solar flare X and gamma ray detector 10 keV-8MeV(Ioffe PTI)
- SKL Solar cosmic ray spectrometer (gamma 0.03-100 MeV, n, e, p, He) (MGU)
- RES-K Solar active area X-ray line imaging 6" Fe, Mg, XUV (FIAN)
- SRT 1" resolution solar X-ray telescope (FIAN)
- RPS X-ray radiation from flares (IKI) 3-30 keV, at Fe 5.9 keV.
- SPR-N X-ray polarimeter (FIAN) 20-100 keV
- AVS Solar flare X and gamma ray detectors (MIFI) 3 keV - 6 MeV