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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #20 on: 07/11/2015 03:57 pm »
Any ideas what satellite 762V is? I think it is another reference to Olimp-K Luch. MSS-767 is the platform for the Ekspress-AM satellites.

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КА «Глонасс-К», КА 14Ф31, КА «Луч-5», КА «Ямал-300К», КА 14Ф141, КА «Экспресс-АМ5, 6, 8, АТ1, АТ2», КА Lybid, КА «Амос-5», КА «Телком-3», КА 762В, КА KazSat-3
http://www.tsenki.com/production_technologies/hiroscopic/control_systems/compact_unit_angular_rate/kind34-040-040a/

Could be Garpun, but this makes references to both КА 14Ф136 №12Л and КА 762В.

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Корректировка КД и ЭД на дооборудование СК 8П882К (ПУ-24) для запуска КА 762В
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/download/download.html?id=1126316
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/plan/info/documents.html?planInfoId=397077&d-6842228-p=1&planId=34085&versioned=&activeTab=1

Or is the V connected to Sfera-V?
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32423.msg1318304#msg1318304
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #21 on: 11/16/2015 06:08 pm »
There is a download here, with details of upcoming satellites:-
http://www.satcomrus.net/2014/eng/ppp_satcomrus2014.zip

Thanks to:-
http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic4557/message1297519/#message1297519

Turns out there are to be four ‘Blagovest’ satellites?

Blagovest are for the Russian military prepared under contract №Н/2/2-05-11-ДОГОЗ dated 14th April 2011.
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?noticeId=2584863

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Вопрос: Запланированная дата запуска КА?.
Ответ: Планируемая дата запуска КА – 4 кв. 2016 года.
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?noticeId=2584863

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #22 on: 11/16/2015 07:07 pm »
Blagovest are for the Russian military prepared under contract №Н/2/2-05-11-ДОГОЗ dated 14th April 2011.

Insurance for Blagovest :
http://www.asn-news.ru/news/53301

There is a picture of Blagovest here (page 8/13) :
http://www.ard-satcom.ru/files/dubna%202015/%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%202%20%D0%B8%D1%8E%D0%BB%D1%8F%20%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%202015_2%20%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2.pdf
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #24 on: 02/22/2016 09:23 am »
So here is the nagging problem. There is evidence for two upcoming Proton-M/Briz-M launches this year. Also evidence for two satellites; one referred to as article 14Ф149 and the other by its name Blagovest. So far not found any evidence that Blagovest is article 14Ф149. Any suggestions from the fragments of information if they are the same?

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #25 on: 02/22/2016 11:36 am »
So here is the nagging problem. There is evidence for two upcoming Proton-M/Briz-M launches this year. Also evidence for two satellites; one referred to as article 14Ф149 and the other by its name Blagovest. So far not found any evidence that Blagovest is article 14Ф149. Any suggestions from the fragments of information if they are the same?
They're both number 11L (i.e. first flight model) :-\

> Адаптация СУ РБ "Бриз-М" в обеспечение запуска КА «14Ф149 №11Л»
> на оказание финансовой услуги: страхование изготовления, сборки, испытаний и хранения КА "Благовест" №11Л
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #27 on: 03/25/2016 08:53 pm »
Ladies and gentlemen, Blagovest !

Picture from Reshetnev's gazeta n°399.


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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #28 on: 06/29/2016 08:18 pm »
There is something referred to as article 14Ф151, and it sounds like it is going up on an Angara with a new type of fairing?
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Предмет договораМинимальные требования к закупаемым товарам (работам, услугам)
Разработка материалов составной части технического проекта. Разработка ГО для запуска КА КК 14К169 с использованием РН «Ангара-А5» и РБ «Бриз-М».ТЗ № К411-14П630-ТЗ.40-2015 № К411-14П221-ТЗ.41-2015
Создание второго рабочего места подготовки РН на техническом комплексе 14П630 КРК «Ангара» эскизный проект.ТЗ № К411-1-14П630-ТЗ.30-2015
Разработка головного обтекателя с увеличенной зоной полезной нагрузки в обеспечение запусков КА 14Ф151.ТЗ № К411-ГО14С746-ТЗ 3337
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/download/download.html?id=3136963
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/plan/info/actual-documents.html?planId=249514&planInfoId=1049524&versioned=&activeTab=1
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #29 on: 07/02/2016 05:28 pm »
Blagovest and Sfera are part of the same project; and it was to have been implemented by 2020.
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Перспектива развития отечественной военной спутниковой связи определена проектами ТТЗ на создание перспективных ретрансляторов «Сфера» и «Благовест», в которых определены следующие направления:
- Освоение миллиметрового диапазона волн;
- Увеличение пропускной способности спутниковых радиолиний;
- Реализация коммутации каналов и пакетов в ретрансляторах;
- Реализация режима зонального обслуживания.
Планируемые к разработке комплексы станций спутниковой связи в ОКР «Сфера», «Передатчик» направлены на создание для всех видов ВС РФ унифицированной модульной программируемой станции, при этом типоразмеры станций варьируются от портативных приемопередатчиков до крупногабаритных станций, устанавливаемых на кораблях ВМС и стационарных узлах связи. Однако все модификации оборудования данного семейства обладают полной электромагнитной совместимостью, а также допускают дальнейшее наращивание функциональных возможностей и улучшение технических характеристик.
Разработку нового поколения станций спутниковой связи для работы с новыми ретрансляторами «Сфера», «Благовест» планируется осуществить к 2020 году. Для подготовки к серийному выпуску нового поколения станций предприятие проводит глубокую модернизацию технологического оборудования, внедряет новые технологии, осуществляет комплексную автоматизацию всего производственного процесса.
http://www.e-disclosure.ru/portal/files.aspx?id=32628&type=2
http://www.e-disclosure.ru/portal/FileLoad.ashx?Fileid=1117199
Sfera has been delayed and a further four Meridian have been ordered as a replacement.

Reshetnev are also working on the Geo-IK-3, but I am not sure if that is just the satellite called Geo-IK-3 because it consists of various types of satellites.
https://www.glonass-iac.ru/content/news/?ELEMENT_ID=1666
ftp://ns.ipa.nw.ru
https://www.glonass-iac.ru/aboutIAC/Report%20by%20Kosenko%20Zvonar_3.pdf

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #30 on: 07/14/2016 07:25 pm »
Maybe it can interest some of you. I've published a big story about Molniya comsats.

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/satellites/molnia/molnia.html
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #32 on: 05/01/2017 09:35 am »
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The first GEO satellite Raduga-M1 with onboard GNNS GLONASS&GPS receivers and autonomous navigation subsystem Raduga-M1 was launched in 2007.
http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/icg/2016/icg11/pf17/pf1.pdf

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #36 on: 06/22/2017 10:34 pm »
Report: Russia may have accidentally revealed new military satellites

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I was involved in the release of this information, so here's some background.

While I was writing an article for Jane's Intelligence Review on current Russian intelligence-gathering satellites, someone at Jane's notified me of a picture taken during a visit by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to ISS Reshetnev on 6 June. It showed Shoigu's delegation watching a board containing information on satellites called Repei-V and Repei-S ("repei" meaning "burdock"), which had never been identified before. Since they were shown to the Russian Defense Minister, it was clear that these were classified military satellites and that they had appeared in the picture by accident. We believe (but cannot tell for sure) that the picture was originally on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense and was subsequently removed. The remaining pictures are here:

http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12127280@egNews

The picture (taken by a TASS photographer) remains available on the websites of the TASS photo agency and Getty Images. The credit for spotting it goes entirely to the team at Jane's.

I was then asked to do a quick write-up on Repei that would be included in the article. This was published online yesterday, but is only available to subscribers.

The board is only visible from an angle and shows a satellite with two large antennae. The information is hard to read even with image enhancement, but what *is* clear is that Repei-V satellites are to be placed into highly elliptical orbits ("V" standing for the Russian word "vysokoellipticheskiy", highly elliptical) and Repei-S into geostationary orbit ("S" standing for "statsionarnyy").

One possibility is that these are military communications satellites. ISS Reshetnev is known to be working on next-generation military comsats to be deployed into highly elliptical orbits (to replace the Meridian constellation) and geostationary orbits (to replace the Raduga-1M constellation). These have been identified in the Russian press as Sfera-S and Sfera-V, but Repei-S and Repei-V could be internal Ministry of Defense designators for these satellites (there are also two names circulating for the current geostationary comsats : Raduga-1M and Globus-1M). One of the words on the board appears to be  "coverage zone" ("zona obsluzhivaniya" : literally translated "service zone"), which may indeed be indicative of a comsat.

Another, more intriguing possibility is that Repei-S and Repei-V are the first Russian signals intelligence satellites to be placed into high orbits (possibly using the same bus as Sfera-S and Sfera-V). There has been some speculation that ISS Reshetnev satellites identified in a handful of official documents as 11F141 and 11F144 are SIGINT satellites. These have earlier been rumored to be named Labirint. One would be the equivalent of the American Jumpseat satellites in Molniya-type orbits and the other the equivalent of the American Magnum/Orion/Mentor/SHARP satellites in geostationary orbit. See this thread on NSF :

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36887.0

ISS Reshetnev is known to be working on large antennas under a research project known as Pribor-Reflektor. These have been linked to civilian comsat projects, but might just as well have other applications. See :

https://www.iss-reshetnev.ru/media/newspaper/newspaper-2015/newspaper-375.pdf
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ska.html

In short, the jury remains out on the purpose of the Repei satellites. 

This is all that I've been able to decipher on the board. Unfortunately, none of the numbers are clearly visible.

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Repei-S :
Purpose (?) : … Repei-S is being developed in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

- Orbit : geostationary
- Coverage zone  of the orbital constellation of satellites :  from ?? NL to ?? NL   (NL=northern latitude), without restrictions in longitude
- Launch mass, kg : ??
- Output of solar panels under minimum lighting conditions, ??
- Power available for payload, W    ??
      
Repei-V :

- Orbit : highly elliptical
- Coverage zone of the orbital constellation of satellites   : from (??) NL to (??) NL, without restrictions in longitude.
- Launch mass, kg : ??        
- Output of solar panels under minimum lighting conditions, W : ??
- Power available for payload, W : ??


One correction to my article : I wrote that Shoigu's visit was not mentioned on the ISS Reshetnev website, but while it was not mentioned in their press releases, I've since been told that the company did put a brief video report on its website :





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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #37 on: 06/22/2017 11:27 pm »
Report: Russia may have accidentally revealed new military satellites

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Is this the ССКМС satellites?
http://izvestia.ru/news/589798

Thanks, Stan,  for the link. Yet another possibility...

For those not fluent in Russian, SSKMS stands for "Confidential Mobile Communication Satellite System". According to the Izvestia article (August 2015) it was a merger of two projects that had been considered earlier : four satellites in highly elliptical orbits (under research project Ellips) and three satellites in geostationary orbit (under research project Yenisey). First launch was planned for 2019. Due to budget cuts, the two projects were integrated into one involving a total of four satellites : two in geostationary orbit (to be launched in 2021 and 2025) and two in highly elliptical orbits (to be launched in 2023 and 2025).

A TASS report in January 2016 said that the the launches of the satellites had been completely eliminated from the latest version of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025. 
http://tass.ru/kosmos/2586264

However, in May this year a tender was announced for the development of specialized equipment for the satellites under the project name "Modul PM - SSKMS". Development ("technical project" phase) to be completed in November 2021. Deadline for submitting proposals was 31 May.
https://fintender.ru/star/region/Moskva/l0995000000217000039-1

 



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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #38 on: 06/22/2017 11:55 pm »
Report: Russia may have accidentally revealed new military satellites

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Is this the ССКМС satellites?
http://izvestia.ru/news/589798

Thanks, Stan,  for the link. Yet another possibility...

For those not fluent in Russian, SSKMS stands for "Confidential Mobile Communication Satellite System". According to the Izvestia article (August 2015) it was a merger of two projects that had been considered earlier : four satellites in highly elliptical orbits (under research project Ellips) and three satellites in geostationary orbit (under research project Yenisey). First launch was planned for 2019. Due to budget cuts, the two projects were integrated into one involving a total of four satellites : two in geostationary orbit (to be launched in 2021 and 2025) and two in highly elliptical orbits (to be launched in 2023 and 2025).

A TASS report in January 2016 said that the the launches of the satellites had been completely eliminated from the latest version of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025. 
http://tass.ru/kosmos/2586264

However, in May this year a tender was announced for the development of specialized equipment for the satellites under the project name "Modul PM - SSKMS". Development ("technical project" phase) to be completed in November 2021. Deadline for submitting proposals was 31 May.
https://fintender.ru/star/region/Moskva/l0995000000217000039-1

 

So this would make them the Russian equivalent to the US MUOS satellites, which do look somewhat similar with their two large antennas
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/muos-1.htm

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #39 on: 06/23/2017 08:17 am »
Power supply to the P/L seems to be 4332 W for Repei-V

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