Aviation Week: May 17,1999

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Seventeen: February 1999

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MTSAT-1

 1999-F04

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The Multifunctional Transportation Satellite is built by SS/Loral for Japan Ministry of Transport MTSAT is an FS-1300 for Japanese Transport Ministry, Civil Aviation Bureau and Meteorological Agency. It will be launched in Aug 1999 by H-2. The H-2 was modified to use the new LE-5B engine in its second stage. Uses 5S fairing.

Mass 2900 kg launch. Size 4.5m x 3.3m, span 33.1m. Shape box + panel + boom + 2 antennae. Station 140E. Dry mass 1445 kg or 1250 kg.

The aeronautical mission provides voice and data communications and positioning data, allowing aircraft positions to be transmitted to air traffic control. It also provides GPS augmentation.

The meteo mission has an image sensor with visible and IR channels, following on from the GMS series. Meteo data is relayed to JMA, and MTSAT relays other meteorological data.

The satellite was lost when the launch vehicle failed during first stage burn. The first stage debris fell in the Pacific 380 km NW of Bonin Is. and 1250 km SE of TNSC. A failed turbopump blade in the LE-7 main engine was blamed.

 

 

MTSAT
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1999 Nov 15	0729	Launch by H-II	TNSC
		T+1:33 SRB burnout
		T+1:35 SRB sep	-6260 x 60 x 28.5?
		T+3:59 Stage 1 engine failure (107s early)
	0733	T+4:15 Fairing 5S sep	-6000 x 100?
	0734	T+5:22 Stage 1 sep
		T+5:30 LE-5B burn
	0736	T+7:35 End of telemetry
	0737	T+8:20 Destroyed by RSO at 45 km alt.
		Debris impact Pacific
Planned sequence
		T+5:46 MECO
		T+5:54 St 1 sep
		T+6:00 SEIG-1
		T+11:28 SECO-1
		T+24:20 SEIG-2
		T+27:14 SECO-2
		T+28:48 PL Sep	635.04 250 x 35940 x 28.50 (ILAM)
		T+1:57:10 SEIG-3
		T+1:57:21 SECO-3
		T+1:58 Venting
		T+1d2:10 AMF-1
		T+2d:18:24 AMF-2
		T+4d:17:12 AMF-3
		T+7d:7h TMF-1
		T+8d18h TMF-2

Payload:

• Meteo imager, 4 visible and 1 IR channel.

• ADS Automatic Dependent Surveillance, air traffic control

• MSAS MTSAT sat augmentation system, navigation package

People: June 7,1999

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Abrixas

 1999-022A

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Mass 470 kg; 2.5 x 1.8 x 1.1 m in size. DLR astronomy satellite led by MPE (Garching) and AIP (Potsdam), with IAAT (Tubingen). Contractor is OHB-System GmbH, Bremen (Orbital-und Hydrotechnologie Bremen). Consists of telescope module, bus module and solar panels. Abrixas (A Broad Band Imaging X-ray All Sky Survey) does a 0.5-10 keV hard X-ray all sky survey, complementing the ROSAT soft all sky survey. Launch in Apr 1999 by Kosmos-3M from GTsP-4. Control is from DLR/GSOC.

ABRIXAS
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1999 Apr 28	2030:00	Launch by Kosmos-3M	GTsP-4 LC107
	2032:10	T+2:10 Stage 2 burn, 70km
	2032:11	T+2:11 stage 1 sep
	2032:15	T+2:15 St2 full thrust, 156 kN
	2032:20	T+2:20 Fairing
	2037:29	T+7:29 St2 low thrust, 6 kN
	2037:39	T+7:39 St 2 MECO
	2058:47	T+28:47 St 2 low thrust
	2058:50	T+28:50 Stage 2 restart main thrust
	2058:52	T+28:52 St 2 low thrust
	2059:02	T+29:02 Stage 2 MECO
	2059:23	T+29:23 Stage 2 sep	544 x 603 x 48.4
	2059:25	T+29:25 Megsat sep from St2
1999 Apr 28	2330	Battery failed
1999 May 1		end of ops

Payload:

• X-ray optics, 1.6m focal length Wolter I (Zeiss) with 7 mirror modules each with 27 shells, 1' resolution.

Spaceflight: July 1999

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Spaceflight: June 1999

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Intelsat 4A4

 1977-041A

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Intelsat 4A F-4 was launched in May 1977 and used as an Atlantic Ocean satellite. It was moved from 19.5W to Major Path 1 at 34.5W in 1978, and then to a support role at 21.5W in 1983. The orbit was raised in 1989.

Intelsat IVA F-4
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1977 May 26	2147:01	Launch by Atlas Centaur AC39	CC LC36
		T+2:19 BECO 57 km, 2.492 km/s (Vrel)
		T+2:22 Booster jettison 60 km, 2.519 km/s
		T+3:04 Insulation panels 98 km, 2.867 km/s
		T+4:07 SECO 144 km, 3.6078 km/s
		T+4:09 Atlas sep 146 km, 3.6083 km/s
		T+4:18 Centaur MES-1 152 km, 3.593 km/s
	2151	T+4:30 Fairing 159 km, 3.650 km/s
	2157	T+10:21 MECO-1 189 km, 7.786 km/s	189? x 1810? x 28.1?
	2211	T+24:53 MES-2 558 km, 7.373 km/s
	2213	T+26:18 MECO-2 626 km, 9.407 km/s
	2215	T+28:33 Centaur sep 9.260 km/s	636.74 548 x 35729 x 21.8
1977 May 27	0400?	Apo 1
	1500?	Apo 2
1977 May 28	0050	SVM-4A burn Apo 3	GEO +11.4/d
1977 May 31			1436.17 35779 x 35796 x 0.1 GEO 34.6W+0.03W
1978 Jan 3			1436.11 35778 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 34.5W
1978 Sep 30		AOR Major Path 1/DL	GEO 34.5W
1979 Jan 4			1436.08 35780 x 35792 x 0.0 GEO 34.6W
1980 Jan 2			1436.15 35780 x 35794 x 0.1 GEO 34.5W
1981 Jan 5			1436.13 35776 x 35798 x 0.1 GEO 34.4W
1982 Jan 5			1436.15 35771 x 35803 x 0.1 GEO 34.5W
1982 Dec		AOR Major Path 1/DL
1983 Feb 13			1436.10 35775 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 34.4W
1983 Feb		Move to 21W
1983 Feb 21			1436.13 35785 x 35789 x 0.1 GEO 21.6W
1983 Apr		Leased for test operations	GEO 21.5W
1983 Oct 8			1436.09 35784 x 35788 x 0.1 GEO 21.5W
1985 Jul 27			1436.13 35778 x 35796 x 0.1 GEO 21.5W
1986 Jan 3			1436.12 35778 x 35796 x 0.6 GEO 21.5W
1988 Jan 4			1436.15 35775 x 35799 x 2.5 GEO 21.6W
1989 Jul 5			1436.15 35776 x 35798 x 3.8 GEO 21.6W
1989 Aug 9			1436.19 35783 x 35793 x 4.0 GEO 22.2W
1989 Aug 10?		Orbit raise
1989 Sep 10			1448.13 35982 x 36061 x 4.1
1989 Dec 31			1448.1 35970 x 36074 x 4.4
1990 Mar 31			1448.1 35974 x 36068 x 4.6
1993 Dec			1448.2 35969 x 36075 x 7.8
1999 Apr 27			1448.02 35976 x 36062 x 10.9

Corona 82

  1964-037A

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Mission 1008-1 operated from 1964 Jul 10 to 13, followed by Mission 1008-2 from Jul 13 to 17. Both SRVs were recovered; the camera had some light leaks but the mission was considered successful. It identified 7 new missile sites and a possible nuclear reactor, and made observations of Egypt and French Polynesia.

KH-4A Mission 1008
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1964 Jul 10	2314:04	Launch by Thor Agena D
	2316	Castor sep (T+1:00)
	2317	Thor MECO (T+2:27)
	2317	Thor VECO (T+2:36)
	2317	Thor sep (T+2:43)
	2317	Agena burn (T+2:48)
	2321	Agena MECO (T+6:52)	91.04 183 x 483 x 84.98 (VCR)
1964 Jul 11	0143		90.96 187 x 456 x 85.0
1964 Jul 12	1236		90.93 176 x 464 x 85.0
1964 Jul 13	0930		91.00 180 x 461 x 85.0 (RAE)
1964 Jul 13	0950		90.91 177 x 460 x 85.0
1964 Jul 14	0131:03	SRV-1 ejected rev 49
	0131:13	Retro
	0131:25	T/C Sep
	0140:27	Main chute
1964 Jul 14	0205?	SRV-1 recovered
		SRV-2 activated
1964 Jul 18	0057	Fairing sep
1964 Jul 18	0058:16	SRV-2 ejected rev 112
	0058:26	Retro
	0058:38	T/C sep
	0108:29	Main chute
1964 Jul 18	0130?	SRV-2 recovered
1964 Jul 19	0514		90.77 174 x 450 x 85.0
1964 Jul 21	0708		90.57 176 x 429 x 85.0
1964 Aug 4	0400		88.86 164 x 272 x 85.0
1964 Aug 6	1145?	CORONA/Agena reentered

Canada: The State of the Federation 1996

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Kosmos 1468

 1983-055A

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Resurs F-1 17F41 No. 22 was the 12th Resurs-F flight, a 14 day mission in Jun 1983 named Kosmos-1468.

Kosmos-1468
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1983 Jun 7	0750	Launch by Soyuz-U	PL LC41
	0758	Blok-I sep	89.3 216 x 258 x 82.3
1983 Jun 8		Orbit raise	89.9 254 x 279 x 82.3
			89.9 255 x 280 x 82.3
1983 Jun 14			89.9 261 x 279 x 82.3
1983 Jun 21	0401?	Deorbit
	0411?	PO sep
	0421?	Entry
	0435?	Landed

Fortune: July 19,1999

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Tiros 6

  1962-047A

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Tiros VI was the second enlarged hatbox Tiros. Launched at 0845 UT on 1962 Sep 18 from pad 17 at Cape Canaveral, it worked until 1963 Oct 12. In Dec 1993 its orbit was 631 x 654 km x 58.3 deg.

Tiros 6
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1962 Sep 18	0853:08	Launch by Delta	CC LC17A
		T+2:40 Thor MECO
	0855	Thor 318 sep
	0855	T+2:44 Delta S/N 2024 burn
		T+2:58 Fairing sep
	0857:42	T+4:34 Delta SECO
		T+10:36 Spinup
	0903:47	T+10:39 St 2 sep
	0904:01	T+10:53 Altair 20001 burn 40.6s
	0904:42	T+11:34 Altair burnout
	0914?	Altair sep
	0916?	Despin

Rhyolite 1

  1970-046A

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The first Program 720 satellite was launched on 1970 Jun 19 into geostationary transfer orbit by Atlas Agena D. An integral liquid bipropellant apogee motor, probably using a Rocketdyne thruster of around 440N thrust, was used for the first time ever to circularize the orbit and make the inclination equatorial, after which hydrazine thrusters adjusted it to become geostationary. The large antenna was deployed and the mission was a complete success.

Rhyolite 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1970 Jun 19	1137	Launch by Atlas Agena D	CC
	1139	Atlas BECO
	1139	Atlas booster sep
	1142	Atlas SECO
	1143	Atlas sep
	1143	Agena burn 1
	1144?	Fairing
	1146?	Agena MECO-1	178 x 180 x 28.5 ?
	1230?	Agena MES-2
	1231?	Agena MECO-2	178 x 33685 x 28.2
	1233?	Agena sep
		LAM-1
1970 Jun		GEO, tests over US
1970 Aug ?		Data to Pine Gap	GEO 105E
1971		Over India/Pakistan?
1971		GEO over USSR
1973		GEO over China/Vietnam
1975		Still operational

The New Yorker: June 14,1999

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Raduga 3

 1977-071A

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Raduga (Gran') No. 13 was launched in Jul 1977 to the Statsionar 2 position at 35E.

Raduga No. 13
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1977 Jul 23	2115	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	2124	Stage 3 MECO
	2232?	DM burn 1
1977 Jul 24	0347?	DM burn 2
	0352?	DM sep
1977 Aug 4			1436.14 35725 x 35849 x 0.2 GEO 35.2E
1980 Jul 21			1435.83 35722 x 35840 x 1.8 GEO 35.5E
1980 Jul?		end of ops
1980 Aug 4			1435.74 35722 x 35836 x 1.9 GEO 36.6E+0.08E
1980 Oct 12			1435.27 35691 x 35848 x 2.0 GEO 47.1E+0.2

Okean 4

 1994-066A

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Okean-O1 No. 7 (NKhM No. 9) was launched in Oct 1994. It was given the official name Okean-O1.

Okean-O1 No. 7
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1994 Oct 11	1430:00	Launch by Tsiklon-3	PL LC32/2
		T+2:00 St 1 sep
		T+3:33 GO sep
		T+4:38 St 2 sep
		T+5:20 S5M burn 1 172 km	-2700? x 180? x 82.5
	1436	T+6:48 S5M MECO1 205 km	60? x 650 x 82.5
		T+39:20 BOZ burn
	1510	T+40:58 S5M burn 2
	1511	T+41:08 S5M MECO2
		T+41:38 S5M sep
1994 Oct 11			97.68 628 x 667 x 82.6

Salyut 5

  1976-057A

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The final Almaz station to be launched was 11F71 No. 103, Almaz/OPS 3. OPS 3 took off from Baikonur on 1976 Jun 22.

The Soyuz-21 crew docked with Almaz on Jul 7. On Aug 17 the Almaz systems failed and the crew spent several tense hours with the station in free drift and with life support systems shut down, before they managed to restart everything. The following week, Zholobov became ill, with suspicions that the station's air had become contaminated. An expedited return to Earth was ordered.

Soyuz-23 failed to dock with the station in Oct 1976, and the next visitors arrived on Soyuz-24 on 1977 Feb 8. During the Soyuz-24 expedition the crew carried out the Atmosfera experiment to change the air on the station. This was originally prompted by the contamination fears. Tanks in the Soyuz BO were used to replenish the air as the station’s original air qwas vented from the EVA airlock; it appears that the station was not depressurized during this process. They landed on Feb 25 and the KSI film capsule was recovered the next day. The space station was maintained in orbit until August and then deorbited.

Salyut-5
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1976 Jun 22	1804:00	Launch by Proton-K	KB
	1815	Sep from 8S812	208 x 233 x 51.6
		57C cataloged
1976 Jun 24			213 x 245 x 51.6
1976 Jun 26			212 x 243 x 51.6
			215 x 257 x 51.6
1976 Jul 7	1340	Soyuz-21 docked
		Crew entry
		Kdr: Boris Volynov
		BI: Vitaliy Zholobov
1976 Jul 8			213 x 254 x 51.6
		Orbit raise	264 x 274 x 51.6
1976 Jul 29		57D,E cataloged
1976 Aug 9		57FGH cataloged
1976 Aug 20?		57J,K cataloged
1976 Aug 24		Crew to Soyuz-21
	1400?	Soyuz-21 undocked
	1512	Undocking complete
1976 Aug 25			259 x 269 x 51.6
1976 Oct 10			250 x 256 x 51.6
		Orbit raise	254 x 272 x 51.6
1976 Oct 15		Soyuz-23 rendezvous
		Soyuz-23 failed to dock	255 x 268 x 51.6
1977 Jan 14			226 x 237 x 51.6
		Orbit raise	231 x 259 x 51.6
1977 Jan 20			230 x 257 x 51.6
		Orbit raise	257 x 260 x 51.6
1977 Feb 5			254 x 254 x 51.6
			254 x 260 x 51.6
1977 Feb 8		Soyuz-24 docked	253 x 259 x 51.6
1977 Feb 9	0546	Crew entry
		Kdr: Viktor Gorbatko
		BI: Yuriy Glazkov
1977 Feb 21		Repressurization test (Atmosfera)
1977 Feb 22			249 x 251 x 51.6
1977 Feb 23		Soyuz-24 engine test	249 x 253 x 51.6
1977 Feb 24		Soyuz-24 engine test
1977 Feb 25		Crew transfer to Soyuz-24
	0621	Soyuz-24 undocked
1977 Feb 26	0857?	KSI ejected
	0909?	KSI entry
	0928	KSI landed
			248 x 253 x 51.6
			248 x 256 x 51.6
1977 Mar 5			246 x 255 x 51.6
			253 x 274 x 51.6
1977 Apr 15			240 x 257 x 51.6
			254 x 269 x 51.6
1977 Apr 16			257 x 266 x 51.6
1977 Jul 14			215 x 219 x 51.6
			219 x 233 x 51.6
1977 Aug 8			182 x 185 x 51.6
	1255?	Deorbit?
	1315?	Entry?
	1320?	Impact S Pacific?

Navstar 33

 1996-019A

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Two years after the previous launch, a new Block IIA satellite was orbited in Mar 1996. It was placed in plane C, slot C-2 and given the identification PRN 3.

Navstar 33
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1996 Mar 28	0021:00	Launch by Delta 7925	CC LC17A
	0021:21	(Cleary 09)
		T+4:20 MECO
		Stage 1 sep
		SES-1
	0031:28	T+10:28 SECO-1
	0040:51	T+19:51 SES-2 19s
	0041:10	SECO-2
	0042:02	T+21:02 St 2 sep
	0042:40	TES 1:27
	0044:07	TECO
	0046	St 3 sep	192 x 20269 x 34.9
		Delta depletion
1996 Mar 30	1511?	Star 37 burn
1996 Mar 30			20252 x 20548 x 54.8
1996 Apr 9		Nav service operational in slot C-2

Explorer 53

  1975-037A

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SAS C became Small Astronomical Satellite 3 (Explorer 53) shortly before launch. The spacecraft carried a number of x-ray astronomy experiments. SAS 3 was launched at 2245 on 1975 May 7 by Scout F-1 from San Marco into a 94.5 min, 499 x 508 km x 3.0 deg orbit. It operated until reentry on 1979 Apr 9.

SAS 3
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1975 May 7	2245:01	Launch
		T+1:23 St 1 burnout
		T+1:24 St 1 sep, St 2 burn
		T+2:02 St 2 burnout
		T+2:28 heat shield sep
		T+2:30 St 2 sep, St 3 burn
		T+2:59 St 3 burnout, coast
		T+9:30 Spinup
		T+9:31 St 3 sep
	2254:37	T+9:36 St 4 burn
	2255:12	T+10:11 St 4 burnout
	2259	T+14:04 despin
	2300	T+15:05 Stage 4 sep
1979 Apr 9		Reentered