Iridium 42

 1997-077A

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Following the two Iridium MFS dummy satellites, Iridium 42 and 44 were the first to be launched on the Chinese vehicle. After a brief period in the operational orbit, SV42 was lowered to the engineering orbit.

Iridium 42
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1997 Dec 8	0716:49	Launch by CZ2-SD	TY
	0719	Stage 1 sep
	0720	Fairing sep
	0722	Stage 2 MECO
	0727	Stage 2 VECO, sep	93.09 185 x 665 x 86.3
	0805?	SD burn
	0807?	SD sep	626 x 636 x 86.3
	0816	Deployment complete
	0816	SD orbit lower	92.97 209 x 630 x 86.2
1997 Dec 8			97.34 626 x 636 x 86.3
1997 Dec 14			97.40 629 x 639 x 86.3
1997 Dec 16			98.36 678 x 681 x 86.4
1997 Dec 18			100.33 771 x 776 x 86.4
1997 Dec 19			100.38 775 x 778 x 86.4
1997 Dec 23	0349		100.42 774 x 782 x 86.4
		Orbit lower
	1352		100.15 761 x 769 x 86.4
	1852		100.20 766 x 769 x 86.4
1997 Dec 28			100.21 767 x 770 x 86.4
1998 Jan 5	0603		100.23 768 x 770 x 86.4
	2245		100.14 762 x 767 x 86.4
1998 Jan 8			100.15 763 x 768 x 86.4
1998 Mar 9			100.17 764 x 768 x 86.4
2004 Feb 14			100.40 776 x 779 x 86.4
2007 Jun 29			100.40 775 x 779 x 86.4

Kosmos 2416

 2005-048B

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This is a Rodnik satellite built by NPO PM. After retirement of the sextet launches on Tsiklon-3, two satellites were launched on a Kosmos-3M; - one Gonets and one Rodnik/Strela-3.

Gonets
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2005 Dec 21	1934	Launch by Kosmos-3M No. 232	PL LC132/1
	1936	Stage 1 sep
	1936	T+2:26? GO sep
	1941	T+7:38? Stage 2 MECO-1
	2027?	Stage 2 MES-2
	2027?	Stage 2 MECO-2
	2028	Gonets sep from Stage 2

Coriolis

 2003-001A

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The Coriolis mission is an STP flight P98-2 carrying Windsat and SMEI. Coriolis will use a Spectrum Astro SA-200HP bus and launch by Titan II. Windsat operates as a USN/ONR satellite managed by NRL under the STP, as part of the Coriolis mission. Windsat uses a polarimetric microwave radiometer to measure wind speed and direction; earlier missions did not have all the Stokes parameters and so could not determine direction. It has a 1.8m microwave reflector and horns operating at 10.7, 18.7 and 37 GHz. Horns at 6.8 and 23.8 GHz will measure only 2 of 6 polarization components.

Assembly by Det 12 STP/Kirtland, oprations at Kirtland for first year and then by NSOC Pt Mugu. Mass 377 kg bus, 827 kg total. 4.7h 1.3dia + panel. Cylinder + truss + panel. 82 kg propellant. First use of large 7.6m fairing on the Titan 2 SLV.

It was inserted into a 281 x 845 km transfer orbit on 2003 Jan 6 and used onboard propulsion to reach its operational 822 x 841 km x 98.7 deg orbit by Jan 18.

Coriolis
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2003 Jan 6	1419	Launch by Titan II	V SLC4W
		T+2:34 St 1 MECO
		T+2:35 Stage 1 sep
		T+2:35 Stage 2 TIG
		T+3:33 Fairing sep
	1424	T+5:32 Stage 2 MECO	219 x 824 x 98.7
	1514	T+55:48 Titan stage 2 RCS burn, 110s burn	278 x 827 x 98.7
	1517	T+58:38 Titan 2 sep	273 x 830 x 98.7
2003 Jan 9			95.93 281 x 845 x 98.7
2003 Jan 10			97.08 391 x 846 x 98.7
2003 Jan 11			98.14 489 x 849 x 98.7
2003 Jan 12			99.12 579 x 853 x 98.7
			99.57 621 x 855 x 98.7
2003 Jan 13			100.03 663 x 855 x 98.7
2003 Jan 14			100.46 703 x 857 x 98.7
2003 Jan 15			101.31 781 x 860 x 98.7
2003 Jan 16			101.38 814 x 833 x 98.7
2003 Jan 17			101.17 804 x 823 x 98.7
2003 Jan 18			101.55 822 x 841 x 98.7
2003 Feb 8			101.55 822 x 841 x 98.7
2005 Feb 13		Windsat BAPTA lube failure?
2005 Jul		Windsat operations resume

Payload:

• Windsat Passive ocean surface wind vector polarimetric radiometry, NRL; 6.8, 10.7, 18.7, 23.8 and 37 GHz; 1.83m reflector, 1025 km swath.

• SMEI Solar Mass Ejection Imager, USAFRL, camera with 0.1 percent photometry. GL-802

USA-198

 2007-060A

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NROL-24 'Scorpius' Launch by Atlas V 401, 4m fairing, CCB and SEC Centaur from CC LC41. The satellite is thought to be an SDS satellite replacing USA 125, and operating with USA 137 and USA 179.

NROL-24
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2007 Dec 10	2205:00	Launch by Atlas V 401 AV-015	CC SLC41
		Az 47.07 deg
		T+4:11 BECO
		T+4:17 Atlas sep
		T+4:28 Centaur MES-1
	2209	T+4:36 Fairing sep
	2215?	MECO-1	209 x 262 x 60.0
	2314	MES-2
	2315?	MECO-2
	2320?	Centaur sep	301.59 261 x 16776 x 60.0 (A)
		Centaur depletion	301.63 272 x 16768 x 60.7 (B)
		Orbit (UN)	294.0 220 x 16322 x 60.7
2007 Dec 17			301.52 258 x 16774 x 60.0
2007 Dec 28?		Orbit raise
2007 Dec 30			715.08 515 x 39705 x 62.6

Intelsat 10

 2004-022A

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IS10 is a 5575 kg Eurostar 3000. The satellite uses a plasma thruster for stationkeeping. Dry mass is 3125 kg.

Intelsat 10
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2004 Jun 16	2227:00	Launch by Proton-M 53506 / Briz-M 88509	KB LC200/39
		T+2:03 St 1 sep at 41.8 km	-6160? x 45? x 50.5
		T+5:29 St 2 sep at 120 km	-4920? x 130 x 51.4
		T+5:42 Fairing sep	-4900? x 135? x 51.4
		T+8:36 141 km alt
		T+9:38 Stage 3 sep
	2237	T+10:00 147 km alt	-900? x 149 x 51.6
	2238	T+11:12 Briz MES-1
	2245	T+18:52 Briz MECO-1	173 x 173 x 51.5
	2335	T+1:08:12 Briz MES-2
	2352	T+1:24:54 MECO-2	258 x 5000 x 50.3
2004 Jun 17
	0155	T+3:28:45 MES-3
	0205	T+3:38:15 MECO-3
	0205	T+3:38:30 DTB jettison over 45W 0N	246.32 309 x 12967 x 49.7
	0207	T+3:40:20 MES-4
	0214	T+3:47:03 MECO-4	414 x 35849 x 49.0 (TLE)
	0720s	T+8:53:09 MES-5
	0725s	T+8:58:49 MECO-5	4184 x 35804 x 23.7 (TLE)
	0737	T+9:10:20 Briz sep
	0942s	T+11:15:00 Briz depletion
2004 Jun 20?		LAM-1
2004 Jun 21		LAM-2	1251.90 28436 x 35761 x 1.9
2004 Jun 23	1100?	LAM-3	1432.88 35678 x 35678 x 0.1
2004 Jul 6			1436.59 35787 x 35805 x 0.2 GEO0.02E+0.6E
2004 Jul 8			1436.26 35777 x 35802 x 0.1 GEO 0.7E+0.05W
2004 Jul 20			1436.02 35768 x 35801 x 0.1 GEO 0.9E
2004 Aug 19		Relocate to 1.0W
2004 Sep 2			1436.10 35782 x 35790 x 0.0 GEO 1.0W
2006 Aug 8			1436.06 35781 x 35790 x 0.0 GEO 1.0W

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Palapa C1

 1996-006A

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The Palapa C-1 satellite was owned by PT Satelindo (PT Satelit Palapa Indonesia), a regional company which replaced PT Telekomunkasi as the operator of the Palapa system. It was located at 113E and will cover Indonesia, SE Asia, and parts of China, Japan, India and Australia. Launch mass was 2989 kg, on orbit mass is 1775 kg.

By 1998 Palapa C-1 was owned jointly by PT Satelindo and PT Pasifik Satelite Nusantara (PSN). The satellite lost the ability to charge its batteries in late 1998.

In Nov 2000 the satellite was reowned by Hughes Global Services, which renamed it HGS-3 and then leased the satellite to Kalitel/San Diego, who in turn leased capacity to Turk Telecom as Anatolia 1. It was then moved to 50E.

In late 2002 it was leased by Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications, which called it Paksat 1, and moved to 38E.

The national Perumtel/Telkom organization handed over the Palapa C satellites to Satelindo in 1996; Telkom then began to launch 'Telkom' satellites.

Palapa C-1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1996 Feb 1	0115:01	Launch by Atlas Centaur (AC-126)	CC LC36B
	0117	BECO
	0117	Booster sep
	0118	Fairing sep
	0119	SECO
	0119	Atlas sep
	0120	Centaur MES1
	0125	Centaur MECO-1	160? x 400? x 28.2?
	0137?	Centaur MES2
	0139?	Centaur MECO2
	0143:47	Centaur sep	1923.25 240 x 89462 x 21.9
			1935.12 255 x 89869 x 21.8 (TLE)
		167 x 90327 x 21.8 (AWST)
	1714	First apogee eq crossing at 60.6W 0.0N
1996 Feb 4	0530?	LAM-1
1996 Feb 6			2811.95 29234 x 89996 x 2.26
1996 Feb			LAM-2
1996 Feb			LAM-3
1996 Feb 12			1509.96 35521 x 38920 x 0.22
1996 Feb 13	1600?	LAM-4
1996 Feb 13			1436.57 35493 x 36099 x 0.14
1996 Feb 13			1435.97 35495 x 36074 x 0.11
1996 Feb 19			1435.66 35481 x 36074 x 0.1 GEO 125.0E+0.1E
1996 Feb 27			1436.18 35493 x 36083 x 0.1 GEO 124.3E+0.03W
1996 Mar 3		Drift
1996 Mar 16		Move in	GEO 113E
1996 May 30			1436.12 35779 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 113.2E+0.01W
1996 Aug 14			1436.14 35776 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 112.9E
1996 Aug 15		Move out
1996 Sep 12		Move in	GEO 150E
1996 Sep 19			1436.13 35767 x 35806 x 0.1 GEO 150.5E
1999 Oct 15			1436.11 35778 x 35795 x 0.5 GEO 150.9E
2000 Nov		Renamed HGS-3
2000 Nov 24			1436.15 35771 x 35803 x 1.4 GEO 151.3E
2000 Dec		Reloc to 49E	1448.05 36008 x 36032 x 1.4
2001 Jan 25			1436.10 35688 x 35885 x 1.5 GEO 49.8E
2001 Jun 5			1436.11 35773 x 35800 x 0.1 GEO 50.0E
2002 Nov 28			1436.06 35771 x 35799 x 0.0 GEO 50.0E
2002 Dec 5		mv out	1440.50 35867 x 35878 x 0.0
2003 Jan 23		mv in as PAKSAT
2003 Feb 7			1436.04 35778 x 35792 x 0.0 GEO 38.0E
2004 Feb 10			1432.10 35773 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 38.0E
2006 Aug 1			1436.05 35772 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 38.0E

NOAA-17

 2002-032A

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NOAA M was launched by Titan II in 2002, becoming NOAA 17. It wil go to a 1000LT southbound equator crossing to optimize vegetation mapping, instead of the 0730LT used by earlier NOAA morning satellite.

NOAA M is 4.2m long 1.9m dia with a 6.1m solar panel array. Mass is 2232 kg launch, including 757 kg of fuel in the 42.38 kN Star XFP, which burns for 51s.

NOAA M was the last NOAA to be completed at East Windsor before the transfer to Sunnyvale in 1998.

NOAA M
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2002 Jun 24	1823:04	Launch by Titan II	V SLC4W
		T+2:31 St 1 MECO
		T+2:32 St 1 sep, St 2 burn
		T+3:38 Fairing sep
	1828:33	T+5:29 St 2 MECO
	1829:35	T+6:31 Stage 2 sep	-2500? x 820
	1837:44	T+14:40 Star 37XFP AKM burn
	1838:35	T+15:31 AKM burnout
	1838:40	T+15:36 AOCS trim burn
	1839:04	T+16:00 end AOCS burn	101.19 807 x 822 x 98.8
		T+20:43 Solar array deploy
		T+22:13 Boom deploy
2006 Aug		AM Primary

Payload:

• AVHRR/3 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

• HRPT/3 High Resolution Picture Transmission

• AMSU-A1 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

• AMSU-A2 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

• AMSU-B Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

• SBUV/2 Solar Backscatter UV Radiometer 2

• SEM/2 Solar Environment Monitor

• DCS/2 Data Collection System

• HRIRS High Res IR Sounder

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