Quote from: Ronsmytheiii on 08/07/2012 02:33 amQuote from: Chris Bergin on 08/07/2012 02:07 amRoscosmos talking about a failure on the Briz-M?Phobos-Grunt (zenit but with Briz-M) and now this, Briz-M isnt having too much luck lately.Fobos-Grunt used a modified Fregat, not Briz. To the best of my (admittedly incomplete) knowledge Briz has never been used on Zenit, nor are there any plans to do so.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 08/07/2012 02:07 amRoscosmos talking about a failure on the Briz-M?Phobos-Grunt (zenit but with Briz-M) and now this, Briz-M isnt having too much luck lately.
Roscosmos talking about a failure on the Briz-M?
Do we have the serial numbers for the rocket and the culprit itself?
The Briz-M stage was #99531
Phobos-Grunt (zenit but with Briz-M) and now this, Briz-M isnt having too much luck lately.
Quote from: Skyrocket on 08/07/2012 06:17 amThe Briz-M stage was #99531Are you sure ? I have 99531 for the SES-5's Briz-M...
So from http://www.ria.ru/science/20120807/718040335.html the first and second Briz-M burns were nominal (as confirmed from TM data) while the third burn did not occur and the stack is orbiting in the intermediate orbit 268 x 5000km x 49.9°
Satellite observer Kevin Fetter saw four objects related to this launch flying in series at around 04:08 UTC, so it looks like the Breeze-M separated its APT and the two satellites after the engine failed.http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Aug-2012/0061.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ9B6JQFOrA&feature=youtu.be