The ILS Proton return to flight mission will be the Astra 2E satellite for SES on September 15, 2013.
Popovkin said that Soyuz spacecraft will fly on Soyuz-FG rockets till 2020 and the first Progress spacecraft will fly on Soyuz-2-1A rocket at the end of 2014.
Yes, it is still in a production and will be till 2020 at least.
3.2. Гарантийный срок хранения и эксплуатации РН 11А511У-ФГ и 11А511У должен составлять 6,5 лет.
Quote from: anik on 08/19/2013 02:37 pmYes, it is still in a production and will be till 2020 at least.Latest batch ordered:http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=3194165AlsoQuote3.2. Гарантийный срок хранения и эксплуатации РН 11А511У-ФГ и 11А511У должен составлять 6,5 лет.
as far as i understand it (my russian is not the best):it is an order for production and delivery of 17 soyuz launchers (9x soyuz-fg + 8x soyuz-u) placed by roscosmos (to launch soyuz and progress spacecrafts)...the contract price is 12 009 278 000 rur... which is about 365 mil. usd or about 275 eur...please correct me, if i am wrong...
Quote from: Stan Black on 08/19/2013 03:25 pmQuote from: anik on 08/19/2013 02:37 pmYes, it is still in a production and will be till 2020 at least.Latest batch ordered:http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=3194165AlsoQuote3.2. Гарантийный срок хранения и эксплуатации РН 11А511У-ФГ и 11А511У должен составлять 6,5 лет.Can I politely ask that when people post non-English quotations they provide at least a summary English translation (depending on the length of the quote), please? Not everyone can translate Russian or Chinese, etc, etc.Thank you!
Sorry for that, I was trying to point out that Soyuz-U have a 6½ year storage life, so the Soyuz-U manufactured in 2020 will be available to at least mid-2026.
Quote from: Stan Black on 08/19/2013 09:03 pmSorry for that, I was trying to point out that Soyuz-U have a 6½ year storage life, so the Soyuz-U manufactured in 2020 will be available to at least mid-2026.But the last of these ordered Soyuz-U will be launched in February 2017 (Progress M №437).
«Создание гидрометеорологической космической системы мониторинга Земли четвертого поколения на солнечно-синхронных орбитах в части создания опережающего задела бортовой гидрометеорологической аппаратуры» Шифр: ОКР «Метеор-МП»
By August 22, Russian officials finalized launch windows and the flight order for most missions of the Proton rocket for the remainder of 2013, the project officials told RussianSpaceWeb.com. After the planned return-to-flight launch on Sept. 15, Proton was scheduled to launch a Sirius XM Radio commercial satellite and a classified Russian military satellite in October. The classified payload is believed to be Globus satellite designed for military communications. It would likely have ability to relay data from Russian military spy satellites to ground stations, while they fly out of direct contact with their mission control. A commercial mission delivering an Inmarsat satellite would follow in November.As this site reported before, a high-priority mission to deliver a pair of Russian communications satellites designed to support Winter Olympics in Sochi was inserted into the manifest. It is currently scheduled for the beginning of December.The Proton's 2013 launch schedule would be concluded with another launch at the end of December. The rocket will carry either Russian Ekspress AM5 satellite or Turksat-4A communications satellite for Turkey. The payload which would ultimately be bumped off this mission would have another opportunity to fly at the end of January or beginning of February 2014.During another series of meetings in November or December, Proton officials plan to add another batch of missions to the rocket manifest in 2014.Proton launch manifest as of Aug. 22, 2013: Launch date Payload1 Sept. 15 Astra-2E2 Oct. 9 Sirius XM Radio FM63 Oct. 22 A classified Russian federal payload (likely a Globus comsat)4 3rd week of November Inmarsat 5F15 1st week of December Ekspress AT1/AT26 Last week of December Either Ekspress AM5 or Turksat-4A