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Michibiki 1

 2010-045A

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QZS-1, Quasi Zenith Satellite System developed for Advanced Space Business Corp, a JAXA/industry consortium to provide enhanced nav and comm services in Japan, with GNSS augmentation service. ASBC shut down in 2007 and was replaced by a government non-profit foundation, SPAC.

Satellite orbit 35786 x 35786 x 45. TTC from Okinawa; sat over 135E.

QZSS in Japanese is Jun Ten Cho. Named 'Michibiki' ('guiding', 'showing the way'). Spacecraft derived from the ETS-8 bus. Mass 4100 kg wet, 1800 kg dry, box + 2 panels. Size 2.9 x 3.1 x 6.2m with 25.3m span.

Japan's first Quasi-Zenith Satellite System craft (Jun tenchou eisei shogou ki,

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QZSS 1), was launched on Sep 11. QZSS 1 is named 'Michibiki' ('guiding light'). It carries an L-band navigation payload to augment GPS and a C-band payload for communications; the satellite's special inclined geosynchronous orbit will spend time directly overhead Japan, providing a better signal to receivers whose view of GEO satellites on the southern horizon is blocked by tall buildings. The satellite is 4100 kg wet, 1800 kg dry and was built by Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) at Kamakura. The satellite is controlled by JAXA from a ground station on Okinawa. The H-IIA rocket put QZSS in a roughly 280 x 280 km x 31.8 deg parking orbit at 1129 UTC; after a second burn at 1141 UTC the satellite was deployed into a 280 x 35336 km x 31.8 deg path; the on board engine will circularize the trajectory and increase the inclination.

QZS
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2010 Sep 11	1117:00	Launch by H2A 202	TNSC
		T+1:33 SRB burnout 45 km
		T+1:47 SRB sep 54 km
		T+4:18 PLF sep 150 km 2.6 km/s
		T+6:42 MECO 228 km
	1123	T+6:50 St 1 sep 223 km
	1123	T+6:59 SEIG-1 236 km 5.2 km/s
	1129	T+12:36 SECO1 288 km 7.7 km/s	280 x 280? x 31.8
	1141	T+24:43 SEIG-2 256 km 7.7 km/s
	1144	T+27:36 SECO2 254 km 10.2 km/s	280 x 35336 x 31.8
	1145	T+28:27 St 2 sep, 275 km , 10.2 km/s
2010 Sep 12			250 x 36150 x 31.9
	0302	AEF-1 67 min	6785 x 35969 x 36.6
2010 Sep 13
	0426	AEF-2 88 min	1333.21 31528 x 35967 x 40.8
2010 Sep 14
	0321	AEF-3 7 min
2010 Sep 14			1442.80 35869 x 35965 x 41.0
2010 Sep 16			1521.70 35916 x 38975 x 41.0
2010 Sep 17			1422.22 32046 x 38982 x 41.0
2010 Sep 20			1422.69 32065 x 38982 x 41.0
2010 Sep 27			1436.04 32605 x 38964 x 41.0
2010 Oct 2			1436.08 32607 x 38964 x 41.0 GSO 120.7E

Payload:

• L-band helical array antenna

• L1-SAIF antenna, QZSS L1 nav signal SBAS PRN 183

• Laser reflector

• C-band antenna

ROSAT

 1990-049A

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The ROSAT (Rontgensatellit) X-ray observatory, launched in Jun 1990, was similar to NASA's Einstein observatory but with improved spatial and spectral resolution. It carried nested X-ray mirrors which focused radiation onto a PSPC (Position Sensitive Proportional Counter, similar to the Einstein IPC) and an HRI (High Resolution Imager, supplied by the US team that built the similar instrument on Einstein). A separate but coaligned extreme ultraviolet telescope, the Wide Field Camera (WFC), was built by the UK Leicester University group. The mission was operated by MPE in Germany in collaboration with NASA and the UK. The first six months of the mission saw an all sky survey by the PSPC instrument. At the end of the survey, a power failure caused the spacecraft to lose attitude control and accidentally point at the Sun, which severely damaged the PSPC-C instrument then in the focal plane and degraded the WFC. Fortunately a backup PSPC and the HRI were available to support continued operations in the pointed phase, which was opened to astronomers across the world.

ROSAT
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1990 Jun 1	2147:59	Launch by Delta 6920	CC LC17A
		T+0:55 SRM 1-6 burnout
		T+1:00 SRM 7-9 burn
		T+1:02 SRM 1-6 sep
		T+1:56 SRM 7-9 burnout
	2149:56	T+2:02 Final 3 Castor sep
	2152:25	T+4:24 Thor cutoff
	2152:30	T+4:32 Thor sep
		T+4:38 Delta burn
	2152	T+4:43 Fairing sep
	2159:07	T+11:09 SECO-1 299 km	200? x 580? x 53
	2226:00	T+38:02 Delta circ burn, 12s
	2226:12	T+38:14 SECO-2
	2231	T+43:00 Delta sep	577 x 584 x 53.0
	2226	T+1:39:10 SES-3 evasive
		T+1:39:15 SECO-3
	2237	T+1:50:10 SES-4 depletion
		T+1:50:31 SECO-4	454 x 557 x 52.51
1991 Jan 25		Power failure
1991 Feb 10		Pointed phase
1991 May 13		Y axis gyro failed
1991 Aug 3		Sky survey completion patch
1991 Aug 13		Completed sky survey
1994 Jul		PSPC-B retired
1998 Apr 28		Star tracker failed
1998 Sep 20		Pointed at sun, HRI damaged
1998 Oct 28		end of ops
1998 Dec 6		PSPC observations
1998 Dec 18		PSPC observations ended
1999 Feb 12		Decommissioned
2011 Oct 23	0150?	Reentered over Andaman Sea/China?

Payload:

• XRT 0.84m aperture Wolter I X-ray Telescope Zerodur/Au, 4 shells, f=2.4m

• WFC 0.58m aperture XUV Wide Field Camera, Ni-Al/Au mirrors f=0.52m 0.04-0.2 keV (60-300A)

• PSPC-C Position Sensitive Proportional Counter, 0.1-2.4 keV

• PSPC-B Position Sensitive Proportional Counter.

• HRI High Resolution Imager (SAO/Murray)

Astra 1G

 1997-076A

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HS-601HP satellite, launch by ILS Proton. It is colocated with the other Astra 1 satellites. The second HS-601HP, it features GaAs solar cells with 7 kW power. In Mar 1998 it took over digital TV broadcast traffic from Astra 1F.

Astra 1G
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1997 Dec 2	2310	Launch by Proton 382-02/DM3 No. 2L	KB LC81
	2312	Stage 1 sep T+2:07
	2315	Stage 2 sep T+5:35
	2315	Fairing sep T+5:44
	2315	8S812 burn T+5:40
	2139	8S812 shutdown T+9:38
	2319	Stage 3 sep	180? x 200? x 51.6
	2320	T+10:44 PB (perekhodnikiy blok) sep
1997 Dec 3	0026?	DM burn 1
		MECO-1	200? x 36000? x 51.5?
	0530?	DM burn 2
		MECO-2
1997 Dec 3	0551	T+6:41 Blok-DM sep
1997 Dec 3			841.70 10316 x 35972 x 12.4
1997 Dec 5	1400?	LAM-1
1997 Dec 9			1399.32 34118 x 36008 x 0.3
1997 Dec 11	0700?	LAM-2
1997 Dec 17			1436.13 35755 x 35818 x 0.0 GEO 24.6E+0.01W
1997 Dec 30			1438.90 35014 x 36668 x 0.0 GEO 19.2E+0.7W
1998 Feb 24			1436.12 35772 x 35802 x 0.0 GEO 19.2E
1999 Oct 18			1436.02 35722 x 35848 x 0.0 GEO 19.2E
2000 Jun 13			1436.06 35755 x 35816 x 0.1 GEO 19.2E
2006 Oct 28			1436.16 35777 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 19.2E
2009 Mar 22			1436.11 35773 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 19.2E

Kosmos 2475

 2011-064A

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Three Glonass M launched by Proton-M with a Briz-M upper stage: Nos. 43, 44 and 45.

GLONASS 745 replaced 712 on 2011 Dec 8.

Glonass-M
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2011 Nov 4	1251:41	Launch by Proton-M	KB LC81
		T+2:07? Stage 1 sep
		T+3:18? Fairing sep
		T+5:38? Stage 2 sep
	1301	T+9:40? Stage 3 MECO
	1301:25	T+9:53? Stage 3 sep	-469 x 200 x 51.5
	1302:54	Briz MES-1 248s
	1307:02	Briz MECO-1	199 x 200 x 51.5
	1323:46	MES-2 931s
	1339:18	MECO-2	200? x 5000? x 52.5?
	1538:55	MES-3 886s
	1553:41	MECO-3
	1555?	DTB sep	313 x 19107 x 52.53
	1829:30	MES-4 641s
	1840:11	MECO-4	19142 x 19204 x 64.8
	1841:22	Briz sep

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