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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch
« Reply #1 on: 10/08/2005 06:08 am »
Lots of launches this year and not many of them are US :(

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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch
« Reply #2 on: 10/08/2005 05:20 pm »
Launch success!

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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch
« Reply #3 on: 10/08/2005 06:22 pm »
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Launch success!

Unfortunately not... Communication with rocket enden in T+319 sec, Rosaviacosmos said the rocket was failed. http://rian.ru/incidents/20051008/41642377.html

Next Rockot launches was suspended: http://rian.ru/technology/cosmos/20051008/41642471.html

Info (in polish language) is on: http://astro.zeto.czest.pl/n051001.htm#03
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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch
« Reply #4 on: 10/08/2005 06:23 pm »
Ah!!! :(

Thank you for the update.

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RE: ESA Cryosat Failure
« Reply #5 on: 10/08/2005 06:27 pm »
Damn, that's a real shame.
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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch
« Reply #6 on: 10/08/2005 06:47 pm »
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Sergi Manstov - 8/10/2005  7:20 PM

Launch success!

Unfortunately not... Communication with rocket enden in T+319 sec, Rosaviacosmos said the rocket was failed. http://rian.ru/incidents/20051008/41642377.html

Next Rockot launches was suspended: http://rian.ru/technology/cosmos/20051008/41642471.html

Info (in polish language) is on: http://astro.zeto.czest.pl/n051001.htm#03

England vs Poland on Wednesday ;)

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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch
« Reply #7 on: 10/08/2005 06:53 pm »
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SimonShuttle - 8/10/2005  8:47 PM

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Sergi Manstov - 8/10/2005  7:20 PM

Launch success!

Unfortunately not... Communication with rocket enden in T+319 sec, Rosaviacosmos said the rocket was failed. http://rian.ru/incidents/20051008/41642377.html

Next Rockot launches was suspended: http://rian.ru/technology/cosmos/20051008/41642471.html

Info (in polish language) is on: http://astro.zeto.czest.pl/n051001.htm#03

England vs Poland on Wednesday ;)

Off-topic, but... ;)
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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch (Failure)
« Reply #8 on: 10/08/2005 07:01 pm »
We were awful today.

Anyway on the rocket. When the second stage doesn't seperate, is that always the end of it. Or is it in a low orbit where it could be captured and placed in its correct orbit?

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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch (Failure)
« Reply #9 on: 10/08/2005 07:28 pm »
Launches are never routine, despite how routine they seem to be now.
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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch (Failure)
« Reply #10 on: 10/08/2005 07:31 pm »
It's total failure now:

Conference:

“The remnants of the satellite have fallen into the northern Arctic Sea,” :Vyacheslav Davydenko, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency.

“The booster unit did not switch on and it resulted in the failure of the satellite to reach orbit,” he said.

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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch (Failure)
« Reply #11 on: 10/09/2005 02:26 am »
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A new satellite to help provide insight into one of the more controversial environmental issues being faced today failed to reach orbit to begin its mission to monitor crucial changes in Earth's polar ice caps because its rocket booster's flight computer had a missing command...

"Preliminary analysis of the telemetry data indicates that the first stage performed nominally. The second stage performed nominally until main engine cut-off was to occur. Due to a missing command from the onboard flight control system the main engine continued to operate until depletion of the remaining fuel," the satellite's owner, the European Space Agency, said in a statement announcing the launch failure.
 
"As a consequence, the separation of the second stage from upper stage did not occur. Thus, the combined stack of the two stages and the CryoSat satellite fell into the nominal drop zone north of Greenland close to the North Pole into high seas with no consequences to populated areas."

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RE: ESA Cryosat set for launch (Failure)
« Reply #12 on: 10/09/2005 11:18 am »
Failure was missing separation command from Breeze-KM upper CSC. Khartron (Ukrainian contractor of the CSC being blamed).

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