Monday, June 17, 2013

Odin

 2001-007A


SSC's Odin astronomy satellite will fly on an STC-Komplex Start-1 in 1998 from Svobodny.

Odin has a dual mission to study the interstellar medium and aeronomy. The astronomy mission involves 500 GHz and 119 GHz observations of molecular clouds and other sources. The aeronomy part studies the stratosphere and mesosphere, scanning the earth limb from 15 to 120 km. It will study the ozone layer.

Mass is 250 kg; size box + plate + antenna 2.0m h 3.8m span 1.1m packed dia. 1800 LT SSO. The spacecraft has four solar manels mounted on the aft sunshade. Odin is built by SSC. SSC reports to SNSB (Swedish National Space Board).

DS stage remained attached to St 4?

The astronomy part of the mission ended in spring 2007. In 2008 Odin's mission was extended again as it continued climate change studies.


Odin 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2001 Feb 20  0848:27  Launch by Start-1  SVOB 
 0849? T+1m Stage 2 burn 
 0850? T+2m Stage 3 burn 
 0854? T+6m Stage 4 burn 
 0854? T+6m Stage 4 burnout  96.53 576 x 606 x 97.8 
  DS burn 
  Debris G  531 x 610 x 97.8 
  Debris C-F,H,J  
 0855? T+7m DS burn? 
 0902? DS burnout? 
 0904:35  Sep from stage 4 
 2200   97.03 610 x 621 x 97.8 
2007 Mar?   end of astro ops 
2013 Jun   Still op for climate change study 

Payload:

  • 1.1m reflector

  • SMR 500 GHz radiometer

  • SMR 119 GHz radiometer (O2 ground state)

  • OSIRIS Optical/IR spectrometer 2800-8000A, 1.27mu, 3cm aperture

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Asiastar

 2000-016A


Worldspace's second digital radio satellite is Asiastar. Asiastar mass 2777 kg full 1220 kg empty. Matra Marconi Space Eurostar 2000+ satellite 1.7 x 2.6 x 3.0 m with 28 m span. Box + 2 panels + 2 dishes.

In 2010 June it was sold to Noah Samara's Yamzi USA company. In around 2015 it was sold on to New York Satellite Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of NY Broadband.

NYSH owns ASIASPACE Pty Ltd (Victoria, Australia, 1995), which has the rights to the 105E Australian L-band BSS orbital slot ASIABSS(105E). Intelsat was actually providing spacecraft control services. In 2017 ASIASPACE was sold on to Silkwave Holdings (Cayman Is., 2016 and Hong Kong, 2015), also CMMB Silkwave Holdings. Silkwave Holdings is jointly owned by NYBB, Chi Capital and CMMB Vision.

In 2015 Nov its capacity was to be used by NYSH's partner CMMB Vision Holdings (

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China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Holdings Ltd, Zhongguo yidong duomeiti guangbo konggu youxian gongsi), formally based in the Cayman Is but with its main office in Hong Kong. By 2017, CMMB now stands for Convergent Mobile Media Broadcasting.


Asiastar 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2000 Mar 21  2328:30 Launch by Ariane 5  CSG ELA3 
  T+7s liftoff 
  T+2:25 EAP sep 
  T+3:19 Fairing sep
 2338:21 T+9:51 MECO  
 2338 T+9:57 sep  
   45 x 1368 x 7.7  
 2338:34 T+10:04 EPS burn 
  T+26:42 EPS MECO  674 x 35479 x 7.05 
 2355  T+27:57 Asiastar sep 
 2359  T+31:08 SYLDA-5 sep 
2000 Mar 22  0002  T+34:39 Insat 3B sep 
 0050?  EPC impact Pacific  
2000 Mar 23?   LAM-1 
2000 Mar 24    457.22 1044 x 25519 x 1.4 
2000 Mar 24   LAM-2  856.14 11321 x 35655 x 2.4 
2000 Mar 30?  LAM-3 
2000 Mar 30    1426.16 35518 x 35664 x 0.0 GEO 97.7E+2.5 
2000 Apr 3    1436.54 35670 x 35920 x 0.0 GEO 104.6E 
2000 May 25    1436.19 35763 x 35813 x 0.0 GEO 105.0E 
2006 Aug 2    1436.14 35772 x 35802 x 0.0 GEO 105.0E 
2010 Sep 23    1436.14 35768 x 35806 x 0.0 GEO 105.0E

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