Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Himawari 7
2006-004A
Unyu tamokuteki eisei shin (MTSAT). Named Himawari-7 after launch.
Mitsubishi Melco satellite for Min of Transport and JMA. RSC signed launch contract with JCAB and JMA. JAXA provides support and launch activities after T-4 days.
JCAB (Japan Civil Aviation Bureau, koukuukyoku) under MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)(kokudo koutsuushou) JMA - Japan Meteorological Agency (Kishocho).
Mitsubishi DS-2000 bus, SN011105-16. Mass 4650 kg full 1700 kg dry. Bus is box + panel + boom, with balancing solar sail like the Insat 1 satellites. Span 30m, size about 4m dia 6m high?
Launch Feb 2006 by RSC HIIA 2024 and 5S fairing.
Aeronautical relay for comms between ATC and aircraft; GPS augmentation navigation; aircraft location transmission. TTC from MELCO SOC at Kamakura. Payload control from JCAB ASC at Kobe and Hitachi-Ohta and JMA CDAS, Hatoyama.
| MTSAT 2 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Feb 18 | 0627 | Launch by HIIA F9 | TNSC |
| T+0:10 SSB1-2 on | |||
| T+0:20 SSB 3-4 on | |||
| T+1:08 SSB 1-2 off, 19 km Vi 1.1 km/s | |||
| T+1:18 SSB 3-4 off, 26 km | |||
| T+1:30 SSB 1-2 sep 35 km 1.5 km/s | |||
| T+1:31 SSB 3-4 sep | |||
| T+1:57 SRB-A burnout | |||
| T+2:07 SRB-A sep at 68 km 1.9 km/s | |||
| T+3:57 Fairing sep at 143 km 2.8 km/s | |||
| T+6:36 MECO at 225 km 5.5 km/s | |||
| T+6:44 St 1 sep at 230 km | |||
| 0633 | T+6:50 SEIG-1 at 234 km | ||
| 0639 | T+12:15 SECO-1 302 km | ||
| 0651 | T+24:03 SEIG-2 255 km | ||
| 0653 | Perigee over 151W 0N | ||
| 0654 | T+27:19 SECO-2 264 km 10.2 km/s | ||
| 0655 | T+28:10 St 2 sep from MTSAT | 243 x 34909 x 28.5 | |
| 2006 Feb 23 | AEF-3 | ||
| 2006 Feb 24 | 1434.86 35751 x 35773 x 0.03 GEO 145.7E+0.3E/d | ||
| T+5d antennas deployed | |||
Payload:
- L-band antennas, 1 global beam and 6 spot beams
- MSAS (EGNOS) signal, SBAS PRN 137 (MTSAT-2)
- Ku-band (4 spot beams), aeronautical feeder
- Ka-band (3 spot beams) aeronautical feeder
- UHF antenna
- USB antenna (Unified S-band) (TTC)
- JAMI - Japan Advanced Met Imager: 4 IR, 1visible channel 0.55-0.90, 10.3-11.3, 11.5-12.5, 6.5-7.0, 3.5-4.0 microns. Res. 1 km (vis) 4 km (IR), swath 170 km
Sunday, March 1, 2009
OCO
2009-F01
Orbiting Carbon Observatory is an ESSP mission for high resolution global mapping of atmospheric CO2. Contractor is OSC using LeoStar-2 bus and launch on Taurus; operation is by JPL and the PI is David Crisp at JPL. The instrument has 3 long slit NIR spectrographs for the O2 0.76 micron A-band, and CO2 bands at 1.61 and 2.06 microns. They share an F/1.8 telescope.
OCO flies at the head of the A-train at 1:18pm, with Aqua at 1:30, Cloudsat at 1:31, Calipso at 1:31:15, Parasol at 1:33 and Aura at 1:38. OCO stationkeeping burns every 10 weeks.
Mass 441 kg including 45 kg of prop. Hexagonal cylinder + 2 panels 2.12m high 0.94m dia with 9m span.
Launch by Taurus 3110, planned to 705 x 705 km x 98 deg A-train orbit, node 1:15PM. Fairing failed to separate, crashed near Antarctic.
| OCO | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Feb 24 | 0955:30 | Launch by Taurus | V 576E |
| T+1:24 St 0 burnout, sep | |||
| T+1:24 St 1 burn | |||
| T+2:42 St 1 burnout | |||
| T+2:43? St 1 sep | |||
| T+2:49 St 2 burn | |||
| T+2:55 Fairing failed to separate | |||
| T+4:04 St 2 burnout | |||
| T+5:07 St 2 sep | |||
| 1005:40 | T+10:10 St 3 burn | ||
| 1006:54 | T+11:24 St 3 burnout | ||
| 1008:49 | T+13:19 St 3 sep | ||
| T+13:29 CCAM St 3 | |||
| 1037? | Reentered over circa 71E 72S? | -129 x 614 x 98 | |
| Impact near Antarctica | |||
Payload:
- CO2 spectrometer, f/1.8 Cass telescope
Ekspress 4
2000-031A
Ekspress A No. 3 was launched in Jun 2000 to replace Statsionar-11/Gorizont-26 at 11W, the Ekspress 3A position.
It is owned by gospredpriyatiya (GP) Kosmicheskaya Svyaz' (GPKS). Launch mass 2600 kg.
| Ekspress A No. 3 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Jun 24 | 0028:00 | Launch by Proton 39402 | KB PU39 |
| 0037 | Stage 3 MECO | ||
| 0037:44 | Stage 3 sep | ||
| 0038? | Upper adapter sep | ||
| 0200? | DM MES-1 | ||
| 0700? | DM MES-2 | ||
| 0700? | SOZ sep | ||
| 0714 | DM sep | ||
| 2000 Jul 3 | 1448.22 35965 x 36084 x 0.2 | ||
| 2000 Aug 1 | mv in | 1436.15 35780 x 35795 x 0.1 GEO 11.0W | |
| 2000 Oct 16 | 1436.08 35780 x 35791 x 0.1 GEO 11.0W | ||
| 2006 Dec 22 | 1436.07 35777 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 11.0W | ||