Author Topic: Proton-M launch with three Glonass-M satellites - September 25, 2008  (Read 19719 times)

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Three GLONASS Successfully Put Into Orbit
The Proton M carrying three GLONASS satellites lifted off from Baikonur at 12:49 Moscow time ( MT) today,  on September 25, and placed the satellites  into predicted orbit. Nominal satellites separation from the DM upper stage occurred at approximately 16:22 (MT).
http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=1&nid=247

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According to my classification, this was the 3000th Russian orbital launch since Spoutnik !! Congratulations !

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/lancements/lancements.html
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According to my classification, this was the 3000th Russian orbital launch since Spoutnik !! Congratulations !

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/lancements/lancements.html

3000th orbital launch or orbital launch attempt?

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Andrey, is it possible to know the exact launch time? Thanks!

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According to my classification, this was the 3000th Russian orbital launch since Spoutnik !! Congratulations !

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/lancements/lancements.html

3000th orbital launch or orbital launch attempt?

3000th orbital launch attempt. This classification includes Sea Launch flights.
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Video of the launch (streaming) : mms://video.rfn.ru/rtr-vesti/152299.asf
Best regards, Stephan

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Andrey, is it possible to know the exact launch time? Thanks!

08:49:37 GMT, according to http://russianforces.org/blog/2008/09/successful_launch_of_three_glo.shtml
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Andrey, is it possible to know the exact launch time? Thanks!

08:49:37 GMT, according to http://russianforces.org/blog/2008/09/successful_launch_of_three_glo.shtml

Thanks Nicolas, I have that one... I wanted in format 08:49:37.XXX? ;)

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Video of the launch (streaming) : mms://video.rfn.ru/rtr-vesti/152299.asf

Much better quality
http://tvroscosmos.ru/picture_library/video/start32.wmv

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New Ouragan-M satellites are numbers 724, 725 and 726.

Do someone know the Cosmos correspondance ?
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Do someone know the Cosmos correspondance ?

Cosmos 2442-2444

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Do someone know the Cosmos correspondance ?

Cosmos 2442-2444

Yes, I know, but what I think is : which Cosmos is 724, which Cosmos is 725, which Cosmos is 726 ?
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You think that they aren't in the same linear order? :)

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Sometimes they are not... You know, the logic in Russian designation is often quiet strange !  :-)
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From: http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/uragan-m.htm

Kosmos 2442 (Uragan-M #15 (724))              
Kosmos 2443 (Uragan-M #16 (725))        
Kosmos 2444 (Uragan-M #17 (726))


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New satellites are on positions 18, 21 and 22 (plane 3) :

http://www.glonass-ianc.rsa.ru/pls/htmldb/f?p=201:5:2889893091418038721::NO

(you were right, perian and pm1823, the linear order is respected !)
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Interesting video of the preparation of 8K82KM Proton-M/DM-2 that launched Cosmos 2442, Cosmos 2443 and Cosmos 2444 in this Tsenki archive.

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This Proton-M featured RD-276 14D14M engines

http://www.npoenergomash.ru/about/news/news2_77.html

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