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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #41 on: 04/08/2010 12:09 pm »
Live images from Baykonur launch complex LC109/95...

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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #42 on: 04/08/2010 12:12 pm »
We will be looking at this landscape until suddenly the rocket will emerge from the silo to put Cryosat-2 into orbit...

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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #43 on: 04/08/2010 12:13 pm »

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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #44 on: 04/08/2010 12:16 pm »
ESA webcast will start latter...

CryoSat, ESA's ice mission, is scheduled for launch today at 15:57 CEST (13:57 UT). Live web streaming starts at 15:35 CEST (13:35 UT).
 
CryoSat-2 will be placed into orbit 700 km above the Earth by a Russian Dnepr rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch operator is Kosmotras.
CryoSat will be the third of ESA’s Earth Explorer satellites in orbit, following the launches of GOCE (in March 2009) and SMOS (in November 2009).

The 700 kg CryoSat spacecraft – whose name comes from the Greek kryos meaning cold or ice – carries the first all-weather microwave radar altimeter. The instrument has been optimised for determining changes in the thickness of both floating sea ice, which can be up to several metres, and polar land ice sheets, which in Antarctica can be close to 5 km thick. The mission will deliver data on the rate of change of the ice thickness accurate to within one centimetre. 

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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #45 on: 04/08/2010 12:18 pm »
A few info about the Dnepr-1 from ESA...

CryoSat-2 will be launched by a Dnepr – a converted SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile – from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
 
Most of the SS-18 missiles, the most powerful weapon in the Soviet arsenal, were decommissioned under the terms of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, but could be adapted for civil use. In 1997, Russia and Ukraine formed the International Space Company Kosmotras to convert the missiles into Dnepr launch vehicles.
Dnepr is a three-stage vehicle. The first and second stages are original SS-18 stages, used without any modification. The third stage is a modified standard SS-18 third stage equipped with a liquid propellant, two-mode propulsion unit that operates based on a 'drag' scheme in which it flies backwards, dragging the satellite behind it to ensure the most accurate orbit injection. 
 
The overall length is 34 m, and the overall diameter is 3 m. The lift-off mass of the rocket is 211 t. It is launched from a silo, being expelled like a mortar round with a charge of black powder, before the main engine ignition some 30 m above the ground.

Over 30 commercial satellites have been launched by Dnepr. Kosmotras also provides the launch services.


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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #46 on: 04/08/2010 12:19 pm »

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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #47 on: 04/08/2010 12:21 pm »
Speeches have already started at: http://www.livestream.com/eurospaceagency
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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #48 on: 04/08/2010 12:25 pm »
Do my eyes deceive me, or is this going to be a launch from a subsurface silo?
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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #49 on: 04/08/2010 12:28 pm »
Do my eyes deceive me, or is this going to be a launch from a subsurface silo?

Dnepr's are launched from silos...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr-1
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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #52 on: 04/08/2010 12:42 pm »
Many people around the launch silo...

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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #54 on: 04/08/2010 12:45 pm »
I don't know why, but I can't make snapshots from the VLC... maybe from the feed...

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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #55 on: 04/08/2010 12:47 pm »
People are now leaving the launch complex. Launch is scheduled for 1357:04UTC.
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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
« Reply #57 on: 04/08/2010 12:52 pm »
Transportantion of CryoSat-2 to the launch complex...

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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
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Re: LIVE: Dnepr – CryoSat-2 - April 8, 2010 – Baikonur
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