Saturday, February 22, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
C/NOFS
2008-017A
P00-3 PL-602 Comm/Nav Outage Forecasting System. CNOFS will be built by Spectrum Astro for launch and on-orbit delivery on Pegasus in Feb 2004. Low inclination orbit from KMR. Will develop models to map equatorial ionosphere and forecast ionos scintillation.
Orbit 375 x 720 x 13. Delayed to early 2008 following damage to solar panels 2.8m long 1m dia, modified SA-200B. Operation by AFRL and SMC/TE. Mass 360 kg Hexagonal cylinder + 6x 10m booms.
CINDI is Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamic Investigation and consists of the IVM and NWM instruments.
| C/NOFS | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Apr 16 | 1604:00 | L-1011 T/O from KMR | |
| 1702:48 | Drop | ||
| T+1:21 St 1 burnout | |||
| T+1:30 St 1 sep | |||
| T+2:10 fairing sep | |||
| T+2:49 St 2 burnout | |||
| 527 s coast | |||
| T+8:58 St 2 sep | |||
| T+9:09 St 3 burn | |||
| 1712? | T+10:16 St 3 burnout | ||
| 1713? | T+11:16 Stage 3 sep | ||
| 2008 Apr 25 | 97.29 405 x 852 x 13.0 | ||
| 2013 Jun 3 | In safemode | ||
Payload:
- PLP Planar Langmuir Probe, plasma density (AFRL-VS/Hunton)
- VEFI Vector electric field instrument (GSFC/Pfaff)
- CINDI
- IVM Ion velocity meter (SMEX MO) (UTD/Heelis)
- NWM Neutral Wind Meter, in situ composition and flow (UTD/Earle)
- CORISS C/NOFS Occultation Receiver for Ionospheric Sensing and Specification, gives electron density profile from GPS satellite rising and setting. (AeCorp/Straus)
- CERTO Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography, ionospheric radio beacons (NRL/Bernhardt)
Monday, February 10, 2014
Rascom-QAF 1
2007-063A
Alcatel fixed satellite system for Regional African Sat Comm Org, owned by RascomStarQAF (RSQ) of Port-Louis, Mauritius (Republique de Maurice); subsidiary of Rascom in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Rascom-BOT is Build-Operate-Transfer. Thales-Alenia-Space Spacebus 4000B3 satellite. Satellite control station in Garyan, Libya. Mission center in Douala, Cameroun Located at 2.85E. Voice, data, internet to Africa.
Mass 3200 kg. 3160 kg launch, 1395 kg dry, 3.75 x 2.38 x 1.80m bus with 31.8m span.
Flight V180, L530
A propulsion system failure stalled the craft in GTO for a couple of weeks. Backup propulsion thrusters were used.
| Rascom 1 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 Dec 21 | 2141:55 | Launch by Ariane 5GS L530 | CSG ELA3 |
| T+2:20 EAP sep | |||
| T+3:20 Fairing sep | |||
| 2151:37 | T+9:42 EPC MECO | 30 x 1730 x 7.3 | |
| 2151:43 | T+9:48 EPC sep | ||
| 2151:50 | T+9:55 EPS burn | ||
| 2208:25 | T+26:30 EPS MECO | ||
| 2210:25 | T+28:30 RASCOM sep | ||
| 2212:35 | T+30:40 Sylda 5 sep | ||
| 2214:25 | T+32:30 Horizons 2 sep | ||
| T+40:30 end of flight V180 | |||
| 2008 Jan 1 | 637.79 587 x 35744 x 5.48 | ||
| 2008 Jan 1 | LAM-1 | ||
| 2008 Jan | 18 RCS burns | ||
| 2008 Jan 28 | 1431.11 35673 x 35704 x 0.1 GEO 1.2E+1.2E/d | ||
| 2008 Feb 2 | 1436.14 35777 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 2.8E+0.02W/d | ||
| 2008 Feb 10 | On station at 2.8E | ||
| 2008 Jul 14 | 1436.09 35782 x 35790 x 0.05 GEO 2.8E | ||
| 2010 Oct 7 | 1436.11 35770 x 35802 x 0.0 GEO 2.9E | ||
| 2010 Oct 8 | Orbit raise | 1454.01 36131 x 36141 x 0.0 | |