Tangent question in light of potential Cygnus flight from Kourou.....Do Arianespace (or Starsem for that matter) actually market Soyuz rocket flights without using the Fregat stage? Their user manuals doesn't seems to show that option.....
Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 11/05/2014 12:58 pmTangent question in light of potential Cygnus flight from Kourou.....Do Arianespace (or Starsem for that matter) actually market Soyuz rocket flights without using the Fregat stage? Their user manuals doesn't seems to show that option..... I don't know for Starsem, but for launches from Kourou, I believe the version with Fregat is the only option available.
Quote from: denis on 11/05/2014 06:12 pmQuote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 11/05/2014 12:58 pmTangent question in light of potential Cygnus flight from Kourou.....Do Arianespace (or Starsem for that matter) actually market Soyuz rocket flights without using the Fregat stage? Their user manuals doesn't seems to show that option..... I don't know for Starsem, but for launches from Kourou, I believe the version with Fregat is the only option available.Why, the ST Fairing changes nothing and is just an adapter interface. I'm pretty sure RSC Progress would be happy to sell a Soyuz-2-STA without subcontracting Lavonchin for a Fregate. And Arianespace actually does very little for Soyuz launches from Kourou. I've heard that even the drivers of the trucks used to unload the stages from the ships are Russians.Main issue would be GSE and integration, I would guess.
A long shot question for CNES/AE persons that might be reading this: (very nerdy, be aware....)Does anybody know where the name S3B HN came from ?we have S3B HR (which is the fueling hall, ie. Hall Remplisage in french, easy) but HN is unknown, even the local people don't know (it is not Hall Nord, as its not North)
Quote from: Jester on 07/27/2015 04:55 pmA long shot question for CNES/AE persons that might be reading this: (very nerdy, be aware....)Does anybody know where the name S3B HN came from ?we have S3B HR (which is the fueling hall, ie. Hall Remplisage in french, easy) but HN is unknown, even the local people don't know (it is not Hall Nord, as its not North)On Nicolas Pillet's website , it is said that HN = Hall d'eNcapsulation .See here :http://www.kosmonavtika.com/lanceurs/fregat/sol/sol.html
Quote from: bombyx on 07/27/2015 05:18 pmQuote from: Jester on 07/27/2015 04:55 pmA long shot question for CNES/AE persons that might be reading this: (very nerdy, be aware....)Does anybody know where the name S3B HN came from ?we have S3B HR (which is the fueling hall, ie. Hall Remplisage in french, easy) but HN is unknown, even the local people don't know (it is not Hall Nord, as its not North)On Nicolas Pillet's website , it is said that HN = Hall d'eNcapsulation .See here :http://www.kosmonavtika.com/lanceurs/fregat/sol/sol.htmlI confirm. Don't ask me why they did not chose "HE"...
To my knowledge there is/has been no Encapsulation hall in S3A. It is/was only used for propellants loading operations. HE stands for Hall d'Equilibrage (Balancing Hall) used for the determination - on a specific rotating table [Schenck]- of the dynamic unbalance of spacecraft using a solid propellant AKM. Therefore the HE acronym was already used. Hence HN for eNcapsulation.
Hello, https://www.google.fr/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=cEnbVsC_M4GtU8KWsLgN#q=%22ariane+5%22%2210300+kg%22I've heard that Ariane 5 largest payload to GTO was 10317 kg in February 2013. Does anybody know if that record has been broken since then - it was three years ago ?