Saturday, August 1, 2009
Soyuz TMA-4 (Altair)
2004-013A
Spacecraft 11F732 No. 214 flew mission TMA-4/ISS 8S with the Expedition 9 crew. The 8S mission includes the ESA/Netherlands DELTA/EP-6 mission. DELTA includes Netherlands-sponsored experiments and is an acronym for Dutch Expedition for Life Science, Technology and Atmospheric Research.
Crew is Gennadiy Padalka, Michael Fincke and Andre Kuipers (ESA). Launch mass 7219 kg, including a 1285 kg BO, a 2881 kg SA and a 3053 kg PAO. Mass at docking 6908 kg. Undocking mass 6890 kg including 566 kg of prop.
| Soyuz TMA-4 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 Apr 19 | 0319:00 | Launch by Soyuz-FG No. 009 | KB LC1 |
| T+1:53 SAS | |||
| T+1:58 St 1 sep | |||
| T+2:37 GO sep | |||
| T+4:47 St 2 sep | |||
| T+4:57 KhO sep | |||
| T+8:45 Blok I MECO | |||
| 0328:45 | T+8:48 Blok I sep | ||
| 0654:02 | T+3:35:06 DV1 20m/s 50s | ||
| 0734:51 | DV2 burn 20m/s 50s | ||
| 2004 Apr 20 | 0425:43 | DV3 burn 2m/s 6s | |
| 2004 Apr 21 | 0256:19 | DV 26s 10m/s | |
| 0341:07 | DV 61s 25m/s | ||
| 0501:03 | Docking Zarya nadir | ||
| 0630 | HO | ||
| 2004 Oct 23 | Padalka, Fincke, Shargin to Soyuz | ||
| 1814 | HC | ||
| 2108 | Undocking from Zarya 0.1m/s | ||
| 2111 | 0.3m/s sep burn | 353? x 366? x 51.6 | |
| 2342:40 | Deorbit 115.2m/s 273kg 4:18 | ||
| 2347:01 | Deorbit CO | ||
| 2004 Oct 24 | 0008:38 | Modules sep | -23 x 355 x 51.6 |
| 0011:42 | Entry interface | ||
| 0035:09 | Landing 51 01N 67 10E | ||
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tance 2
2004-029A
DSP-2, Polar. Satellite is 2.1m high 1.4m dia with mass 343 kg. DSP-P will have an orbit of 700 x 39000 x 90.0.
Launch southbound from Taiyuan; equator crossing at 0726 UTC. At 0735, the claimed insertion time, the satellite was over 110E 33S at 1200 km altitude.
If the burn was at the perigee of the final orbit, the Stage 2 orbit must have had a slightly negative perigee; the ground track is consistent with no inclination change. The delta-V required is lower than expected for the PKM.
Alternatively, the burn may have happened on the descending leg of the SM trajectory. At 0735 a preburn orbit of -4350 x 1500 km or -3643 x 1292 km would be consistent with the delta-V but not with a TYSC launch.
| DSP-P | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 Jul 25 | 0705 | Launch by CZ-2C/SM | TYSC |
| 0707 | Stage 2 burn | ||
| 0713? | Stage 2 sep | -120? x 666? x 89.1? | |
| 0735 | SM sep (?) | 360.0 681 x 38278 x 90.0 | |
| 0742 | SM burn | ||
| 0743 | SM burnout | ||
| 0743 | Perigee over 108E 66S | ||
| 695.16 666 x 38566 x 90.05 | |||
| 2009 Jul | Last comms | ||
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
AMC-15
2004-041A
Ku/Ka A2100 satellite for SES Americom. A2100 built at Newtown/Pa and Sunnyvale/Ca.
Launch mass 4021 kg.
Echostar is the anchor customer and refers to it as Echostar 15.
| AMC-15 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 Oct 14 | 2123:00 | Launch by Proton-M 53508 /Briz-M 88510 | KB PL200/39 |
| T+2:03 Stage 1 sep | |||
| 2128 | T+5:35 Stage 2 sep | ||
| 2128 | T+5:48 Fairing sep | -4900? x 140? x 51.5 | |
| 2132 | T+9:48 Stage 3 sep | ||
| 2134 | T+11:22 Briz-M MES-1 | ||
| 2142 | T+19:06 MECO-1 | 173 x 176 x 51.5 | |
| 2221 | T+58:27 MES-2 | ||
| 2258 | T+1:32:29 MECO-2 | 890 x 35765 x 49.1 | |
| 2300? | T+1:33:50 DTB sep over 42N 37E | 892 x 35725 x 49.0 | |
| 2004 Oct 15 | 0358 | T+6:35:17 MES-3 | |
| 0404 | T+6:41:54 MECO-3 | ||
| 0417 | T+6:54:30 Briz-M sep | 770.1 7130 x 35775 x 18.6 | |
| MES-4 avoidance | |||
| MECO-4 | |||
| 2004 Oct 18 | LAM-1 | 872.20 11963 x 35759 x 11.5 | |
| 2004 Oct 19 | LAM-2 | 1005.68 17987 x 35757 x 6.6 | |
| 2004 Oct 21 | LAM-3 | 1196.68 26163 x 35755 x 2.8 | |
| 2004 Oct 22 | 1830? | LAM-4 | |
| 2004 Oct 27 | 1435.91 35772 x 35793 x 0.0 GEO 136.0W | ||
| 2004 Dec 9 | mv out | ||
| 2005 Jan 1 | mv in | 1436.18 35786 x 35790 x 0.0 GEO 117.0W | |
| 2005 Mar 18 | mv out | ||
| 2005 Mar 24 | mv in | 1436.06 35783 x 35788 x 0.0 GEO 113.1W | |
| 2005 May 12 | mv out | ||
| 2005 Jun 2 | mv in | 1436.08 35784 x 35787 x 0.1 GEO 105.0W | |
| 2006 Aug 8 | 1436.09 35783 x 35789 x 0.0 GEO 105.0W | ||
| 2008 Mar 4 | 1436.08 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 105.1W | ||
Intelsat 806
1998-014A
806 will be at 41.5W AOR, the slot disputed with Columbia Comms. Corp which was using C-band capacity on TDRS 4. While 801 to 804 provided voice and data relay replacing Intelsat 5, the 805 and 806 satellites were oriented to TV broadcast, and their transponders were higher power. 806 was operated by Intelsat Video Services to provide service to Europe and Latin America. Atlas AC-151 launched 806 into a standard geostationary transfer orbit, after which multiple LAE burns took it to GEO. In 1998 I806 became part of the spinoff company New Skies Satellites NV and was renamed NSS 806.
| Intelsat 806 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 Feb 28 | 0021 | Launch by Atlas IIAS AC-151 | CC LC36A |
| 0022 | T+1:00 Air-lit SRM burn | ||
| 0022 | T+1:07 Ground-lit SRM sep | ||
| 0022 | T+1:57 Air-lit SRM sep | ||
| 0023 | T+2:44 BECO | ||
| 0023 | T+2:47 Booster sep | ||
| 0024 | T+3:28 PLF sep | ||
| 0025 | T+4:51 SECO | ||
| 0025 | T+4:53 Atlas sep | ||
| 0026 | T+5:10 Centaur MES1 | ||
| 0030 | T+9:43 MECO1 | 89.88 149 x 387 x 27.8 | |
| 0045 | T+24:30 MES2 | ||
| 0047 | T+26:07 MECO2 | ||
| 0051 | T+30:07 Centaur sep | ||
| 0333 | 628.34 189 x 35656 x 23.9 | ||
| 1998 Mar 1 | 0330? | LAM-1 | |
| 1998 Mar 1 | 0340 | 674.31 2449 x 35738 x 17.0 | |
| 1998 Mar 5 | 1940? | LAM-2 | |
| 1998 Mar 7 | 0540 | 1030.83 19133 x 35715 x 3.7 | |
| 1998 Mar 8 | 1600? | LAM-3 over 62W | |
| 1998 Mar 9 | 1433.34 35727 x 35738 x 0.1 GEO 61.2W+0.7E | ||
| 1998 Mar 19 | 1433.80 35725 x 35757 x 0.1 GEO 55.6W+0.5E | ||
| 1998 Mar | Testing 55W | ||
| 1998 Apr 5 | 1436.10 35784 x 35789 x 0.1 GEO 55.5W | ||
| 1998 Apr 26 | 1436.16 35783 x 35792 x 0.1 GEO 55.5W | ||
| 1998 Apr | Op 40.5W | ||
| 1998 May 6 | 1436.12 35773 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 40.5W | ||
| 1998 Jun 25 | 1436.19 35775 x 35801 x 0.1 GEO 40.6W | ||
| 1998 Nov 30 | To New Skies NV | ||
| 1999 Oct 17 | 1436.13 35775 x 35799 x 0.1 GEO 40.5W | ||
| 2006 Jul 30 | 1436.11 35736 x 35837 x 0.0 GEO 40.5W | ||