Wednesday, August 26, 2015

ABS-2

 2014-006A


Asia Broadcast Satellite Ltd. (HK) ABS-2, for launch with C and Ku capacity colocated with ABS-1 at 75E. Loral 1300 with eight beams. 6330 kg launch; mass 8.3 x 3.5 x 3.5m, 26m span.


ABS 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2014 Feb 6  2130 Launch by Ariane 5ECA  CSG ELA3 
  T+2:15 EAP sep 
  T+3:13 Fairing sep
 2138 T+8:42 EPC MECO 159 km Vrel 6.908km/s 
  T+8:48 EPC sep 
  T+8:52 ESC-A MES 
 2154 T+24:58 ESC-A MECO 
 2157 T+27:12 ABS 2 sep 
 2200 T+30:08 Sylda sep 
 2202 T+32:21 Athena-Fidus sep 
  T+42:57 End of Ariane ops 
2014 Feb 7    631.92 255 x 35775 x 6.0 
2014 Feb 8    714.97 4456 x 35759 x 3.8 
2014 Feb 10    892.69 12914 x 35751 x 1.8 
2014 Feb 10    1073.49 20950 x 35751 x 0.9 
2014 Feb 19    1436.03 35778 x 35792 x 0.1 GEO 74.5E 
2014 Mar 12    1436.08 35777 x 35794 x 0.0 GEO 74.9E 
2014 Oct 29    1436.08 35777 x 35795 x 0.1 GEO 75.0E 

Monday, August 24, 2015

IGS-9A

 2015-004A


A new IGS radar satellite was assigned for launch on H-2A 27 in 2015 Jan. Orbit was 1015 LTDN SSO.


IGS-RS 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2015 Feb 1  0121  Launch by H-IIA  TNSC 
  T+1:40 SRB-A burnout 
  T+1:47 SRB-A sep 
  T+4:20 4S PLF sep 
  T+6:35 St 1 MECO 
  T+6:43 St 1 sep 
 0127 T+6:49? Stage 2 burn  
 0136 T+15? Stage 2 SECO 
 0141 T+20? IGS R sep   
2015 May 31    94.26 481 x 484 x 97.3 

USA-247

 2013-072A


NROL-39 launch,thought to be the TOPAZ 3 radar satellite. Launched from Vandenberg on Atlas V; the Centaur also carried GEMSAT (Govt Experimental Multisatellite), the second NPSCuL cubesat launcher.


NROL-39 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2013 Dec 6  0714:30  Launch by Atlas V 501  V SLC4E 
  T+3:40? Fairing sep 
  T+3:44? CFLR sep 
  T+4:25? Atlas BECO 
  T+4:30? Atlas sep 
  T+4:41? Centaur MES-1 
 0731? T+17:20? Centaur MECO-1  1057 x 1072 x 123.0 
 0732? TOPAZ/Centaur sep 
  MES-2 
  MECO-2  465 x 972 x 123  
  467 x 883 x 120.48  

 

1022:10  Firebird A/B deploy
 1028:00  3U deploy 
 1034:10  MCU, IPEX, CUNY 3 x1U 
2014 Feb 21    107.35 1100 x 1106 x 123.0 

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