Thursday, June 19, 2014

BSat 2A

 2001-011B


BSat 2a and 2b will be Orbital Star (NovaStar) 550 kg (dry) lightsats. They will provide HDTV digital broadcasting from the 110E slot.

BSat-2a is underneath Sylda. Mass is 1317 kg launch, 535 kg dry. Size is 3.8 x 2.5 x 2.0m with 16.1m span.

The EPC orbit of 243 x 1884 km given in the EADS press kit is probably a typo for 43 x 1884 km.

According to C. Niederstrasser of Orbital the satellite was decommissioned in Jan 2013, 1.5 years after being sent to the GEO graveyard; presumably there was interest in studying the long term surivival of the first of this class of spacecraft.


Bsat-2A 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2001 Mar 8  2251 Launch by Ariane 5G  CSG ELA3 
  T+2:25 EAP sep 
  T+3:14 Fairing sep
  T+9:40 EPC MECO 
 2300 T+9:46 EPC sep  43? x 1884 x 6.7 
 
 2300 T+9:53 EPS burn 200 km 
 2317 T+26:37 EPS MECO  
 2320 T+29:13 Eurobird sep 
 2323 T+32:29 Sylda 5 sep 
 2327 T+36:21 BSAT-2a sep 
2001 Mar 9  0033? EPC reentry 
2001 Mar 9    642.69 897 x 35685 x 2.23 
2001 Mar 10 0155?  AKM  
2001 Mar 13    1445.85 35703 x 36251 x 0.2 118.1E+2.4W 
2001 Apr 3    1436.07 35783 x 35788 x 0.1 GEO 110.1E 
2001 Apr 7    1437.30 35788 x 35832 x 0.0 
2001 May 31    1436.19 35774 x 35802 x 0.1 GEO 109.9E 
2006 Aug 2    1436.12 35765 x 35808 x 0.0 GEO 109.9E 
2010 Apr 28    1436.22 35767 x 35810 x 0.0 GEO 109.8E 
2011 Aug 28    1436.48 35765 x 35823 x 0.4 GEO 118.0E 

Progress M-04M

 2010-003A


11F615A60 No. 404, flight 36P.

7288 kg including 880 kg prop and 2685 kg cargo, with 1152 kg BO cargo and 1283 kg OKD liquid cargo plus 250 kg KDU prop usable for ISS orbit correction.

After undocking, it carried out the Otrazhenie-3 experiment.


M04M 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2010 Feb 3  0345:29  Launch by Soyuz-U  KB LC1 
  T+1:58 Blok BVGD sep 
  T+2:42 Fairing sep 
  T+4:45 Blok A MECO 
  T+4:47 Blok A sep 
  T+4:57 KhO sep 
 0354:16 T+8:46 Blok I MECO 
 0354:19 T+8:49 Blok I sep 
2010 Feb 3  0734:37 DV1 15.6m/s 40s 
 0759:48  DV2 23s 8.8m/s 
2010 Feb 4  0449:42  DV3 20s 1.4m/s 
2010 Feb 5  0410  At 160m from Zvezda 
2010 Feb 5  0425:58  Docked with Zvezda 
 0800? HO 
2010 Mar 24  0930  Reboost 
2010 Mar 25  0915 Reboost DPO 142 kg 1.0m/s 
2010 Apr 23  2030  Reboost 3m/s 20:45 
2010 May 10  1115:32  Undocked  91.50 341 x 354 x 51.6 
 1118:34  Sep burn 15s 
 1506s  burn to lower orbit 
2010 May 11    91.43 338 x 351 x 51.6 
2010 Jun 9    91.39 335 x 349 x 51.7 
2010 Jun 10  0022:00 Orbit raise 9.5s 91.55 347 x 353 x 51.6 
2010 Jul 1  0655   91.53 346 x 353 x 51.6 
2010 Jul 1  1354:00  Deorbit burn 152s 86.9m/s 
 1356:32 Deorbit cutoff 
 1432Reentry 
 1440  Debris impact Pacific 37 47S 124 51W

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

By Invitation Only: A Novel

https://welib.org/md5/2254e2b4f2c58c50c12fc1c0cb9fc3bd

WISE

 2009-071A


Wide Field IR Survey Explorer, MIDEX spacecraft managed by JPL with Ned Wright (UCLA) as PI. 0.4m telescope. Ball Aerospace RS-300 (NextSat derived)

All sky survey 3.5-23 microns. 500 km SSO day-night terminator.

Launch Nov 2009 by Delta 7320-10

Size 2.9m long 2.0 x 1.7m dia.

Mass 661 kg full 645 kg dry.

Cryo cover is hemisphere 0.5?m dia.


WISE 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2009 Dec 14  1409:33 Launch by Delta II  V SLC3W 
  T+1:04 GEM 1-3 burnout 
  T+1:39 GEM 1-3 sep 
  T+4:24 MECO 
  T+4:38 SEIG-1 
  T+4:56 Fairing sep
 1419:56 T+10:23 SECO-1 185 x 554 x 97.50 
 1501:13 T+51:40 SEIG-2 
 1501:21 T+51:48 SECO-2 522 x 537 x 97.50 
 1504:53 T+55:20 Stage 2 separation  
 1534:33 T+1:25:00 SES-3 evasive over Arctic 
  T+1:25:35 SECO-3  530? x 2110?  
 1604:33 T+1:55:00 SES-4 depletion over circa 155W 15S 
  T+1:55:46 SECO-4 at 2400 km  2113 x 11086 x 97.5  
2009 Dec 29  2230 T+16d Cryostat cover ejection 
2010 Jul 17   First sky survey completed 
  Half-sky second epoch begun 
2010 Aug   Cryogen running out 
2010 Sep 29  Cryogen depleted 
2010 Oct   Begin NEOWISE warm survey  
2011 Feb 17  2000 Hibernation mode, transmitter off  
2013 Jan?  Verified healthy in hibernation 
2014 Jan   NEOWISE resumes 

Payload:

  • IR telescope, 40 cm aperture at 12K

  • Cryostat 1.9m long 1.2m dia

  • 15.7 kg frozen solid H2

  • IR instrument (SDL-Utah/UCLA/Wright) with 4 IR detectors: 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 micron bands with 47' FOV and 6" (12" at 22 mu) res.

    • 3.4mu and 4.6mu 1024x1024 pixel HgCdTe at 32K

    • 12, 22 mu 1024x1024 pixel SiAs at 8K

Sunday, June 15, 2014

So Not The Drama: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel

 https://welib.org/md5/3a5053496334921c035b3c2452f1f4c6

Intelsat 11

 2007-044B


Intelsat Orbital Star 2 platform, 18 Ku and 16 C, for AOR. Originally PAS-11.

Mass 2450 kg launch, 1145 kg dry. Size 4.1 x 3.3 x 2.3m with 22.4m span.

CONUS, Mexico and Latin American DTH and video at 43W.

IS-11 and Optus D2 were launched by L526, V178 Ariane 5GS. IS-11 on a Saab PAS937S adapter and CASA MFD spacer on the Astrium-ST Sylda 5E. Optus D2 on a EADS-CASA 937VB5 adapter on the EPS.


IS-11 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2007 Oct 5  2202  Launch by Ariane 5GS  CSG ELA3 
  T+2:20 EAP sep 
  T+3:15 Fairing sep
 2211 T+9:37 EPC MECO  -35 x 1622 x 7.27 
 2211 T+9:43 EPC sep 
 2211 T+9:50 EPS burn  
 2228 T+26:33 EPS MECO 1582 km alt  585 x 35913 x 4.0 
 2229 T+27:48 IS-11 sep 
 2232 T+30:25 Sylda 5 sep 
 2234 T+32:01 Optus D2 sep 
2007 Oct 5    638.85 592 x 35793 x 4.0 
 2328 Aestus second burn test 
2007 Oct 7    702.77 3283 x 35787 x 2.7 
2007 Oct 10    1261.26 27892 x 35789 x 0.2 
2007 Oct 12  1212 LAM 1433.90 35698 x 35788 x 0.0 GEO 48.2W+0.55E/d 
2007 Oct 17   mv in at 47.5W for tests 
2007 Oct 30   mv out 
2007 Nov 5   mv in at 43W 1436.03 35783 x 35787 x 0.1 GEO 43.2W 
2007 Dec 8    1436.12 35780 x 35793 x 0.1 GEO 43.2W 
2008 Feb 17    1436.14 35776 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 43.1W 
2010 Apr 29    1436.12 35774 x 35799 x 0.0 GEO 43.0W 

November 20,2006

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football