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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2060 on: 01/29/2021 06:23 am »
https://ria.ru/20210129/baykonur-1595061123.html
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MOSCOW, January 29 - RIA Novosti. The launch of the South Korean Earth observation satellite CAS500-2 from the Baikonur cosmodrome has been postponed until next year, two sources in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.
In September 2019, it was reported about the delay of the start from 2020 to the beginning of 2021.
"The launch of the CAS500-2 has been postponed until 2022," the source said.
Another source confirmed this information, adding that the delay was due to the unavailability of the satellite.
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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2061 on: 02/02/2021 08:58 pm »
Re: Lotos-S no. 5 = Lotos-S1 no. 4 = Kosmos 2549 launch time on February 2:
Exact liftoff time was 20.45.28.079 UTC. Snowfall at Plesetsk. Rocket disappeared into the clouds.
And:
Interfax-AVN confirms launch took place. Lifted off from Complex 43 pad 4.
https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=545157&lang=RU
(in Russian)
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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2062 on: 02/04/2021 02:26 pm »
https://ria.ru/20210204/luna-1595945667.html
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The interlocutor of RIA Novosti noted that the alteration of the Bion-M biosatellite number 2 for the tasks of the Kovcheg project is technically feasible and has been confirmed to Roscosmos by the spacecraft developer, the Progress Rocket and Space Center.

"It is proposed to launch the apparatus on the new Soyuz-5 carrier rocket as part of its flight tests," the source said. Earlier it was reported that the first launch of the Soyuz-5 rocket as part of flight tests is planned for the end of 2023. In total, within the framework of the tests, it is planned to carry out three launches until 2025 inclusive.

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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2063 on: 02/04/2021 07:52 pm »
On the 20th march Soyuz-2-1A/Fregat-M launch, there will be also GRBAlpha 1U Cubesat.

https://kozmonautika.sk/2021/01/31/tlacova-sprava-satelit-grbalpha-uspesne-dorazil-do-moskvy/

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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2064 on: 02/11/2021 05:58 pm »
Cross-post:
https://ria.ru/20210210/resurs-p-1596757770.html

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MOSCOW, February 10 - RIA Novosti. The launch of the fourth Resource-P Earth observation spacecraft can be postponed from 2021 to 2022, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.
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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2065 on: 02/12/2021 06:37 pm »
Ekspress-AMU3 and Ekspress-AMU7

When, approximately, will the launch be?

Will it be from Baikonur 200/39?
NK forum:
IV кв-л - Экспресс-АМУ3, Экспресс-АМУ7 - Протон-М/Бриз-М - Байконур 200/39

https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/index.php?topic=16307.msg2124250#msg2124250

4th quarter [2021]
200/39
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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2066 on: 02/15/2021 04:34 am »
Liftoff - 04:45:05.310 UTC.

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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2067 on: 02/17/2021 03:56 pm »
Russia plans to launch what it calls its "first commercial remote sensing satellite for a foreign partner" this summer. This was announced last Monday during a round-table discussion on space policy organized by Committee for Economic Policy of the Federation Council (Russia's upper house of parliament).

The plans were briefly mentioned in two presentations, one of them given by a representative of a company named Barl, which builds remote sensing cameras and ground equipment for remote sensing satellites. As can be seen in a slide shown during the presentation, the satellite weighs 650 kg and will be launched into a 490x525 km Sun-synchronous orbit. It has a maximum resolution of 0.75 m. (attachment 1)

The same satellite is also seen in a slide shown during another presentation, where it is identified as a satellite belonging to "Project 505" (see attachment 2). This project is linked in some procurement documents and at least one company annual report to satellite manufacturer VNIIEM. Barl's website has a drawing of a satellite called Alpha-ES (Advanced High Resolution Earth Remote Sensing Satellite) (attachment 3), but that seems to have a slightly different design and weighs only 300 kg.

The foreign partner was not identified, but is almost certainly Iran.  In August 2015, VNIIEM, Barl and an Iranian company signed an agreement on the development of a remote sensing satellite for Iran that would use a modified version of VNIIEM's Kanopus platform. It was announced that the satellite would be launched as a co-passenger on a Soyuz launch vehicle.

Looking at this year's launch schedule, a possible candidate could be the Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat that will launch the Obzor-R radar satellite from Plesetsk in the third quarter of this year. According to the launch schedule published here, that will fly with "multiple small sats". Is there any source of information for that?

By the way, this will not be the first commercial remote sensing satellite that Russia builds for a foreign partner. That honor goes to Egyptsat-2, built by RKK Energiya and launched in April 2014. However, it was lost barely a year after launch and the Russians probably want to erase it from history.


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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2069 on: 02/17/2021 07:28 pm »
Change Log:
Changes from February 02
Changes from February 04
Changes from February 12
Changes from February 15
Changes from February 17

Why do you use only red shades ? It's really becoming very difficult to notice changes...

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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2070 on: 02/17/2021 11:08 pm »
Obzor-R does not use Fregat?
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32725.msg2177196#msg2177196

Yes, you're right. No sign of Fregat in this tender documentation for Obzor-R published in 2014:
https://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ok44/view/documents.html?regNumber=0173100007014000219
The plan at the time was to use a Soyuz-2.1b.

A Soyuz-2.1a with a 81KS type nose fairing was ordered in 2019:
https://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ok504/view/documents.html?regNumber=0995000000219000078

According to the documentation, Obzor-R will be placed into a 97.97° inclination orbit with a mean altitude of 654 km. This is significantly higher than the altitude announced for the commercial remote sensing satellite (490x525 km). 

By the way, I noticed that the Barl company was placed on the US sanctions list in 2018 and there was speculation at the time that this was because of the satellite deal with Iran. Hard to explain though why VNIIEM escaped the sanctions if that was really the reason. Anyway, the reason why the Russians didn't identify the foreign partner is clearly politically motivated.


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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2071 on: 02/18/2021 08:31 pm »
Correction:
Not BBCSAT-1.

http://bccsat.bcc.ac.th/background/
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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2072 on: 02/18/2021 08:56 pm »
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- Let's move on to the prospects. In the coming year, at least one launch of the heavy "Angara" and one launch of the light one is planned. Are there any deadlines?

Varochko: The program for this year includes two launches with the possibility of a third. Launches are planned for the second half of 2021 for both the heavy rocket and the light rocket. But we must understand that each launch has a target task. It is carried out not on a whim, but on the basis of calculations of the readiness of spacecraft and the need for them by the Ministry of Defense.

- It was reported that the third launch of the heavy Angara-A5 will use the Perseus upper stage, but again not with a real spacecraft, but with a model.

Varochko: The Ministry of Defense has set a task to provide the third launch with a payload. To do this, you will have to work hard, including with insurance companies.

- Do you have an understanding of which device will be launched at Angara-A5 in 2021?

Varochko: Not yet.

- Is there a load on a light rocket?

Varochko: The Ministry of Defense has a load on her.

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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2073 on: 02/18/2021 08:57 pm »
https://ria.ru/20210218/raketa-1597946753.html
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MOSCOW, 18 Feb - RIA Novosti. The first commercial launch of the Angara-1.2 light rocket with the South Korean satellite KOMPSAT-6 has been postponed to 2022 due to the unavailability of the spacecraft, it is possible that it will not take place, then the rocket will find another use, the Director General of the State Space Agency said in an interview with RIA Novosti. research and production center. Khrunicheva (manufacturer of "Angara") Alexey Varochko.
"From our side, the launching rocket is being manufactured. The South Korean partners, due to the unavailability of the apparatus due to the pandemic, again asked us to move the launch, using their third opportunity to postpone the launch without penalties. Now the launch is scheduled for the second quarter of 2022," Varochko said

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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2074 on: 02/20/2021 08:23 am »
https://www.roscosmos.ru/30045/
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Vladimir Putin: Are you planning in 2021? 29?
Dmitry Rogozin: We are planning only 29 space rockets. This is due to the debts that we have accumulated over the past year.
Moreover, we have very important launches planned, like, say, for the first time in 45 years we are resuming exploration of the moon. In October, Luna-25, the first landing craft, will leave Vostochny. And then, as you know, we will go, increasing the exploration of the Moon by automatic machines, and then a manned program, which I will briefly report to you today.
Further. We are sending two modules to the ISS. They are already at our Baikonur, their electrical tests are nearing completion, and we plan to launch the largest module, the Science module, in May this year.
Of the important launches, of course, the continuation of the Angara tests. As you know, in December we resumed flight tests. All the necessary technical characteristics have been achieved, which were specified by the state customer. This year we are planning one launch of the heavy Angara and two launches of the light Angara. We build up further. Accordingly, we are developing production in Omsk at the Polyot production association, where from 2023 we must serially produce it, practically satisfying all the necessary needs of both the Ministry of Defense and Roscosmos in these heavy missiles.
Of the important launches this year, I would also note, of course, the launch of a radar apparatus. For the first time, we are switching to radar.

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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2075 on: 02/21/2021 08:50 pm »
What is this a reference to?
https://www.roscosmos.ru/30045/
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Dmitry Rogozin:
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Of the important launches this year, I would also note, of course, the launch of a radar apparatus. For the first time, we are switching to radar.
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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2076 on: 02/21/2021 08:56 pm »
What is this a reference to?
https://www.roscosmos.ru/30045/
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Dmitry Rogozin:
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Of the important launches this year, I would also note, of course, the launch of a radar apparatus. For the first time, we are switching to radar.
https://russianspaceweb.com/obzor_r.html
first time switching from analog radar to the next generation active phased digital beam forming radar called Kasatka-R or killer whale with a resolution of 0.5 - 0.3 meters. Soyuz-2.1A in 2019 documentation had a delivery date to Plesetsk MIK on June 30, 2021 to carry out the first launch NET July.
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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2077 on: 02/22/2021 04:44 am »
https://ria.ru/20210222/raketa-1598525870.html
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MOSCOW, February 22 - RIA Novosti. Two additional launches of Soyuz-2 carrier rockets in the interests of the British company OneWeb may take place from the Vostochny cosmodrome this year, two sources in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.
Earlier, another source of the agency in the industry said that in 2021, six or seven launches of Soyuz-2 missiles from Vostochny are planned. According to him, the commercial program foresees three launches of rockets with 36 British communication satellites OneWeb on board each, three or four launches are expected under the federal program: with the Meteor-M meteorological satellite, two Ionosphere-M scientific vehicles, the Luna-25 station and, possibly, the Kondor-FKA Earth observation radar satellite.
"At the request of the French company Arianespace (which provides commercial launch services using Soyuz-2 missiles - ed.), Two more Soyuz-2 launches with 36 OneWeb satellites in each may be included in the launch schedule," said one of the sources.
Another source confirmed this information, adding that two more launches, planned for March 25, April 23 and May, in the interests of OneWeb, may be added - in June and July. "The June start is possible with a high degree of probability, and the July start is still in question," he said.

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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2078 on: 02/24/2021 07:30 pm »
I've added the attached document's sources in [brackets].
NASA SMSR schedule of 3 February has these changes:

Progress MS-17 (78P) - "2021 U/R" (under review) [Source: CoFR Matrix dated 12/4/2020]
Soyuz MS-18 (64S) - April 10, 2021 [Source: CoFR Matrix dated 1/28/2021]
Nauka (6R) - June 18, 2021
Progress MS-18 (79P) - August 21, 2021 [Source: CoFR Matrix dated 12/4/2020]
Soyuz MS-19 (65S) - September 22, 2021 [Source: CoFR Matrix dated 12/4/2020]

Corrections on the above from the attached file:
MLM (3R) - Spring 2021 under review  [Source: Email from Doug Morsches dated 11/30/2020]
RS-Node (6R) - June 18, 2021 [Source: CoFR Matrix dated 12/4/2020]
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Are all the above changes already out-of-date?
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Re: Plan of Russian space launches (part 2)
« Reply #2079 on: 02/24/2021 08:43 pm »
https://tass.ru/kosmos/10774503
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MOSCOW, February 24. / TASS /. The international crew will leave on the Soyuz MS-18 manned spacecraft to the ISS on April 9. This was stated by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in the new edition of the General's Line program, published on the channel Roscosmos TV on YouTube on Wednesday.

“Our next launch is just before the anniversary of the Cosmonautics Day, this one will be on April 9th. We are sending an international crew,” Rogozin said.

 

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